[AnotherUnixGeek]

In general, I think there’s far too much hysteria about protecting children these days, but leaving a 2 year old in a hot car with the windows rolled up for 25 minutes is dangerous and could be fatal. Glad someone spotted these kids and got them out.

[Blue Jays]

"...hysteria about protecting children these days..."

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Agreed. Responding deputies “instructed the older 5 y.o. child to open the door, yet the kid said he didn’t know how” when told, so they shattered the windows.

When I was that age decades ago I was letting myself enter and exit the car on my own. My mom and dad let me buckle myself into the adult seat. Somehow we all managed to survive. If I was to be inadvertently left in a sweltering car, I would have simply opened the door and climbed out.

Those silly child safety locks were similarly not required.
I guess my folks told me not to exit the car at 55 mph on the highway and I believed them.