Posted on 07/01/2017 9:06:03 AM PDT by Raymann
Sometimes the parents of young children are really under-slept. My son was the kind of kid who woke up several times a night and woke us up also. It was really hard to get proper amount of sleep and your attention may have huge gaps when you are in this condition.
On the one hand I'm with you: how far do we have to go to protect stupid people from themselves?
On the other hand, how far do we have to go to protect the rest of us (and the children of the stupid people) from them?
I don't know the answer .....
This sounds cold, but there has always been an argument for culling the herd. After all, that is what the Darwin Award is about too.
Irrelevant. No invention or solution prevents every possible negative outcome, especially those based on the failure of other systems. If it saves some (most?) in kid-or-pet-in-a-hot-car situations, and it is cost-effective, then it's a very good product.
So the “invention” has to start the car in order for it to work. I can just see somebody getting out of their car in 10 minutes later it starts up and drive the kid down the street.
The FReepers solar exhaust fan is far more practical.
There is an invention already. It is far better than this. It is present in the heads of most humans. The human brain has the capability of making sure that no kid is left in a car. There is only one requirement: caring.
I totally object to the idea that people today are completely overworked, preoccupied and in need of a mechanical device to remind them about their kids.
Hm. We have our three-year-old grandson every Thursday. As far as I know, there is no way in the world I would ever forget he was in the car with me / us. Even if he was asleep.
Parents have always been distracted even good ones and accidents have always happened. But they were less frequent I believe simply for the reasons stated above.
here’s the deal...design a car seat that has electronic capability. put the child into the car seat, and then plug in a wire to the car seat that is hooked up to the cars horn. if the weight of the child in the seat is not released within 60 seconds of the engine cutting off, the panic horn will sound and not go off until the weight is lefted from the car seat.
DonBack soon, have Patent Office on hold.
DonBack= Done. Back soon
Half the people are below average.
That would turn it into a convection oven instead of a regular oven. Bad.
The Supreme Court needs to declare that a child in a car is not a person.
Problem solved.
“Half the people are below average.”
Actually, only 1/4, the other 1/4 is Maxine Waters.
There’s a lot of -IQ in that one!
I'll second that.
Why be always careful and responsible with your precious child, when there's an app for that?
“There was (assume there still is) a small solar powered exhaust fan that you put on a window and is locked in when the window is rolled up.”
yep, lotz to choose from out there. But these cannot lower temps below the outside ambient.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GPEB8FA/ref=s9_acsd_hps_bw_c_x_1_w
I/we have been there with the young child and sleep deficit thing. There was one stretch weeks long when ours was a baby where the wife and I slept in 1-2 hour shifts. 33 years later it still makes me cringe.
Nonetheless, I wouldn’t drive if I was so tired that I could forget my child in the care just like I wouldn’t drive drunk with my kid in the car.
I’m gonna throw out something else here my wife says that will stir things up.
She says half of these kids that die like this are not accidents. The parents do it on purpose.
There was a report years back that showed there was a connection between these car deaths and the introduction of the laws requiring the car seat to be installed in the back rather than the passenger seat up front.
Very interesting to hear this. Here we see unintended consequences of what was thought to be a good idea, to have the car seat in back.
I wonder, how many babies were killed in car accidents, due to a car seat being in the front seat, vs. how many have died in hot car tragedies. And how many of the accidents were so bad, that the baby would have died, whether the car seat was in front or back.
Something to think about.
With new tech many, many inventions are just waiting to come into being. Most have not caught up mentally with all the multitude of possible inventions.
God bless this young man and the family that produced him.
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