Under safety belt definitions, a light truck is considered a passenger vehicle.

• A. False
• B. It depends on seating
• C. True
• D. Only for passenger cars

Answer: (C)

For safety belt definitions, the category is based on a vehicle’s design to transport people and its seating for passengers. Light trucks like pickups and many SUVs are built to carry passengers and have seats for them, so they fit the same category as cars when applying belt requirements. Therefore, a light truck is considered a passenger vehicle for these definitions, making the statement true.

If it were limited only to passenger cars, that would exclude many common, passenger-carrying vehicles, which isn’t how these definitions are applied. The “depends on seating” idea isn’t how the standard classification works here, since the key factor is that the vehicle can carry passengers.