[PeteB570]

Maybe this would happen less if the parents treated their children like their kids instead of an accessory.

[Puppage]

Baby In Hot Car Reminder Devices

Soooo, it wasn't their fault. Why, no one REMINDED them of thewir child in the car.

Do they need a BABY NEEDS FOOD reminder, too? Where does it end?

[TC Rider]

It’s a neat idea, but I believe that most of the people who would do such a thing will never buy this device.

[alicewonders]

Sad comment on our society when a parent has to be reminded their child is in the car.

[Dems_R_Losers]

If the Safety Nazis had not required airbags and forced parents into putting infants in the back seat, parents would not ferget they were in the car. I would be willing to bet that fewer than 26 babies ever died from being in the front seat of a car before airbags were required. When I had my first child I would often put him in the front seat for short trips. I never forgot about him!

[Wolfie]

How long until they’re Federally mandated?

[RexBeach]

Would parents need an alert device to change the diapers, too?

Good Lord, what idiocy.

[Lazamataz]

Baby In Hot Car Reminder Devices

[CarrotAndStick]

June 5, 2006 11:00 AM PDT

Solar car vents keep you cool

Posted by Paul Lin
 

With the school year winding down, parents look ahead to plenty of hot summer days out on the road with the kids in the car. Just how hot those days can be may not hit you until you open the door of a car that's been baking for hours in a parking lot. The fun really starts when the little ones have to get in.

 

Credit: Digital Kitchen

An outside view of Susita's TO-230

In these fuel-conscious times, when consumers may think twice before cranking the AC, one alternative is a solar car ventilator. Susita makes a model called the TO-230. It's basically a small fan weighing 1-1/2 pounds that goes on top of a car window, with a solar panel facing outward.

The solar panel, which is 5 inches by 4.5 inches, powers the fan, which exchanges hot air inside the car for the presumably cooler air outside. If you park in the shade and want to use the fan, there's a plug-in adapter for the car. One retail Web site says the fan can reduce your parked car's interior temperature by 25 degrees, though that's not much solace considering another Web site cited 160 to 180 degree temps inside a parked car on a sunny day.

Pricing varies online. Digital Kitchen lists the fan for $34.95 in its "Dads & Grads" sale, down from $49.95. Carol Wright gifts carries solar fans for $29.99. AmeriMark listed them for $14.99. Or try your luck bidding on eBay.

http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6079960-7.html

 

[The_Victor]

Marketing this device looks to me like a wonderful opportunity to get sued.

[dforest]

Well, it would be cheaper to buy a brain.

[darkwing104]

There are two parts to the device -- a metal plate under the child's seat and an attachment to your keys. An alarm sounds when the keys and the metal plate are 15 feet away from each other.

This ought to be mandatory in the manufacture and sales of new baby seats. The device needs to be tamper proof and with an On-star system if the temp reaches a certain point while the seat is occupied. Some people are just plain too stupid to have children, at least we can try and save the child.

[Midtowngirl]

Maybe I'm a cynic, but I believe in every case the child was left in the car deliberately. Maybe they didn't want to wake a sleeping child, maybe they thought they would only be a few minutes, maybe they were just plain stupid. I hate to think they had more sinister motives, but that too is a possibility. No "reminder" to the driver would have saved these children.

One possible solution would be to have a sensor that would notify local police or sound an alarm so that passers by would notice. That might help.

[Mr. Jeeves]

News 13's Karent Castillo turned on a faucet in a kitchen sink. At its hottest temperature, it reached 120 degrees. If you put your hand under the water for more than five minutes, it would become a third-degree burn. This is the same temperature that detectives said the 22-month-old girl felt while inside her mother's car Tuesday.

Please don't let journalists play scientist any more. Please? That has to be the stupidest comparison I've ever read - or otherwise I wasn't aware the residents of Phoenix, Arizona get third-degree burns every time they go to the grocery store in the summer. ;)

[jiggyboy]

News 13's Karent Castillo turned on a faucet in a kitchen sink. At its hottest temperature, it reached 120 degrees. If you put your hand under the water for more than five minutes, it would become a third-degree burn. This is the same temperature that detectives said the 22-month-old girl felt while inside her mother's car Tuesday.

A shocking display of the lack of even the most rudimentary knowledge of heat transfer. Maybe she also thinks that you'll die in fifteen minutes if you stand outside when it's below freezing.

[Scotswife]

The more I read about this the more I’m convinced we all lead lives that are way too busy.
Too much on our minds - too many things to do - always in a rush.

[elizabetty]

Baby In Hot Car Reminder Devices

Would those be a brain, conscience and soul?

[kitkat]

There were several suggestions by Freepers on another thread on this subject, one of which is:

Put your brief case or purse next to the baby, and you WILL remember that the baby is in the car.

[Sax]

French Hot Car Child Restraint Device:

[Halls]

so sad that someone needs to make a device to remind parents their child is in the carseat in the car alone where they left them.

I was a working mom for a very short time after my first son was born and I can’t figure out how I could have ever forgotten him. Never forgot my youngest son either. I just don’t get it!