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Protecting Children From "Hot Car" Deaths

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Cool story I saw on tv the other night. But to think of an eleven-year old boy possibly coming up with a technological solution for this horrible problem is amazing. Not sure exactly how the device may work, but apparently it got Toyota's attention for real. :cool:

Summers here in the desert are brutal when it comes to how hot the inside of a parked car can get. Very dangerous for children and pets if they are left inside for even minutes.

11-Year-Old Boy's Invention Could Prevent Hot Car Deaths
 
I can't understand why someone would leave a child in the car ever at all for real. Even just running into the gas station to pay for gas I take my kid in. Drive-thru's are a real lifesaver imo.

Apparently at the casino's around here there is a serious problem with people leaving their kids in the car while they go in to gamble. wtf people People make me sad.

I just saw on the news the other day (my dad watches the news not me but I was over there) some sick ***** left her two young children in a hot car in the hot sun to "teach them a lesson" she went back out they were both dead. WTF PEOPLE?!?
 
The reality is quite ugly. It's an agonizing way for a child, infant or pet to die. It happens, though it shouldn't.
 
I think that if the parent
is in a hurry, thinking of all the things she/he has to do, and the baby is sleeping, she/he could step out of the car, forgetting the baby, very easily.
When my kids where babies, I was always afraid that that could happen to me. That's one of the reasons I had to make a conscious effort to slow down my life. Now it's more of a a habit, but sometimes I still have to remind my self to slow down, or I start forgetting keys, locking my self out of the house or car, etc. If I'm alone, that's not a big deal, but with a baby, it could be life or death.
 
Sportster said:
Something I have been curious about in regard to these tragedies is it seems they are more common now. In fact, I don't recall any "hot car" deaths when I was a boy. My mother used to leave me in the car all the time, but I didn't have any problems.

Is there something different now than there was fifty years ago with the cars or human structure? I remember being hot, but I've experienced worse walking from one building to the next at work. Any ideas?
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When we were kids such a story may have been considered "unprintable". Something unimaginable in today's media where anything and everything is reported instantly. A strange combination of both censorship and decency on the part of the press. Both which in modern times seemed to have gone in favor of sensationalism.
 
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There is always a few genuine "I forgot they were there" cases, and those would be newborns - being so new to having a small baby they can occasionally slip your mind. But not when they are even a little bit older. The vast majority of kids/animals being left in cars is purposeful. "I'll only be two minutes"... But then the queue is big, they can't find what they went in for, there's a problem with the transaction... two minutes turns to ten. And then those who just decide to leave child/pet in the car for hours on end, believing because they left a crack in the window they'll be just fine. Alongside this piece of technology they should give people leaving beings in cars harsher punishments. I don't mean from when they have already killed someone, but from when they are caught the first time doing it.
 
People used to put their car seats in the front passenger seats. They did not forget them.

But this created problems in accidents, with airbags. It was declared "safer" to put the child in the back seat. If they fall asleep, and a person gets on their unthinking treadmill of work and errands, it can leave their consciousness.

I've been halfway to work and have to mentally check if I am properly dressed. If I have an errand I want to run on the way to work, half the time I'll forget because I am on auto-pilot.

99% these are tragic accidents, where people are on another mental track about driving safely and morning routine. It's tragic.
 
I posted this today on Facebook, it's even sadder when it's a kid not a dog:

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ksheehan88 said:
There is always a few genuine "I forgot they were there" cases, and those would be newborns - being so new to having a small baby they can occasionally slip your mind. But not when they are even a little bit older. The vast majority of kids/animals being left in cars is purposeful. "I'll only be two minutes"... But then the queue is big, they can't find what they went in for, there's a problem with the transaction... two minutes turns to ten. And then those who just decide to leave child/pet in the car for hours on end, believing because they left a crack in the window they'll be just fine. Alongside this piece of technology they should give people leaving beings in cars harsher punishments. I don't mean from when they have already killed someone, but from when they are caught the first time doing it.
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After 9 months of being pregnant I don't see how you can forget a newborn for real.

"I'll only be two minutes"... But then the queue is big, they can't find what they went in for, there's a problem with the transaction... two minutes turns to ten.
-this is probably more accurate but still absolute B.S. imo

Any baby that's still in those take in/out car seats are super easy to keep with you and not have to wake up. Those bases and car-seats have really streamlined infant/car care.
 
Questella said:
After 9 months of being pregnant I don't see how you can forget a newborn for real.

"I'll only be two minutes"... But then the queue is big, they can't find what they went in for, there's a problem with the transaction... two minutes turns to ten.
-this is probably more accurate but still absolute B.S. imo

Any baby that's still in those take in/out car seats are super easy to keep with you and not have to wake up. Those bases and car-seats have really streamlined infant/car care.
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Maybe its not Mum, its Dad? Dad hasn't been pregnant.

My Mum left me in a shop in my pram once for a couple of minutes, she was having a stressful day and trying to remember lots of things and just left without me. She realised and dashed back and I was safe, so no harm no foul, but it scared the life out of her and she never forgot me again :D

I couldn't even leave my newborns or toddlers alone while I went to put the rubbish out, so I couldn't imagine leaving them in a car alone.

It should never happen, ever. No excuses for leaving small children or animals in cars alone.
 
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