Posted on 06/09/2016 6:51:50 AM PDT by SMGFan
Technology can’t solve all of our problems, but maybe there’s a technological solution that can help with a tragedy that has affected parents of all walks of life: leaving small children in hot cars to overheat and die. The happens to an average of 38 kids every year, and car seat maker Evenflo responded to safety advocates by making a seat and harness that integrates with your car’s electronics.
Before you insist that this could never happen to you because you’re a good parent, review the Pulitzer-Prize-winning article on the subject from the Washington Post that explains the mechanism in our brains that leads a few dozen parents every year to leave their children to die in hot cars. If you have a brain, a child, and a car, it could happen.
(Excerpt) Read more at consumerist.com ...
Following the logic that we must reconfigure the rules on who uses what school bathroom in order to satisfy what could be at most .3% of the population, we should then require all ~15M cars sold in the US each year to have such technology, just to prevent 38 parents from being stupid beyond belief. So they can recklessly endanger their kids in some other mode.
So when this fails, as all technology always does, the lawsuits will be enormous.
No technology is going to solve the problem of forgetting a kid in a hot car and leaving him to die. It’s not a technological problem.
Do people really think they can create a program on an electronic device that is a better human than they are? Is that the mental madness behind creating robots and “driverless” cars?
“The happens to an average of 38 kids every year”
Yet we never hear about more than 4 or 5 per year, because apparently it would depress people enough to stop buying newspapers or tuning into Big Media’s propaganda blast du jure.
But let’s all spend another $20 per child car seat for the 38 criminally irresponsible parents every year.
No, it could not happen to me.
You see, I am not brain dead, I’m not the brightest candle in the cave, but not so stupid as to leave a child unattended in a car.
I noticed a sign on the door of our local Walmart: “Did you forget and leave your child in the car”. It struck me then how our increasingly leftist oriented society is covering up willful neglect with “or gee, I forgot”.
We aren’t just talking about heat related deaths, we are also talking about kidnapping, sex crimes and other violence.
So, IMO, this article is just plain effing stupid. More leftist tripe. Only those truly responsible people will buy such devices and pay attention to the warnings.
I have been considering developing a technology to accomplish this. My biggest problem, the potential law suits if the device for whatever reason, fails to work just one time. No way I am going to touch that.
I don’t agree with the bathroom nonsense but the baby reminder I do like. If you notice, the majority of these cases of forgetting baby syndrome have been upper class whites. I say good for this company for doing something about it.
People who leave their small children in stifling hot cars.
A car seat that reminds you that you left your child in the car is for people who lock their keys in their car and frantically try to pull the lock knob with a coat hanger.
Someone stops and says, “What are you doing? That’s a convertible and the top’s down.”
And they reply, “Duh. Look at those clouds. It’s going to storm!”
I agree. I’m fairly absent-minded, but I KNOW that about myself, so when I had children, I created systems to ensure I didn’t do stupid things. Of course, I also had my children before the age of the “smartphone is permanently attached to my hand and I always HAVE to be checking something/texting somebody/talking to somebody/you-name-it” phenomenon. Not once in my life have I ever left one of my children somewhere, because I forgot I had them.
If you need a car seat to warn you that you left your kid in the car, you shouldn’t be having kids in the first place...
In a thousand years or so, the history books on the Former United States will note that there were windows at fire stations where parents could leave their newborns and thus be rid of the burdens of parenting, and kid car seats that sent a message to mom and dad’s smartphone that they had left the kid behind in the burning hot car, and abortion centers that chopped up babies and sold them by the pound, and doctors that cut off kids’ body parts to help them in their delusion that their bodies were the wrong sex.
The history books will speculate whether the anti-child and anti-reproductive attitude of Americans contributed to the downfall, destruction and total demise of a once-great civilization.
Well, why don’t we require a flashing light in every home reminding you to feed your baby?
How about just remembering—or putting a post note on the dash board? You need special underwear to remind you to wipe your rear end?
Ok leaving a toddler in a hot car without the windows cracked is bad, but this whole madness that you can never leave a child in the car is nuts.
Hmm, a special seat to let you know you put your kid in the car so you won’t forget it. Priceless.
That issue seems to come up with quite a few potential inventions. Maybe someone can invent a way to get around that problem.
Not where I live. Mostly lower middle class, or lower class, and roughly evenly split between "Hispanic" and "Non-Hispanic" Caucasians. Usually, gambling, or alcohol/drugs are involved. Sometimes it's a paid care-giver not used to running around with baby, but doing some errands.
“safety advocates”
Directive #972,894: We strongly urge that you do not attempt to pick up your running lawnmower and trim hedges with it.
Your Consumer Product Safety Commission
No, it couldn’t.
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