Posted on 05/13/2018 8:55:26 AM PDT by oh8eleven
On a summer morning last year, Fred Schaub drove his Toyota RAV4 into the garage attached to his Florida home and went into the house with the wireless key fob, evidently believing the car was shut off. Twenty-nine hours later, he was found dead, overcome with carbon monoxide that flooded his home while he slept.
“After 75 years of driving, my father thought that when he took the key with him when he left the car, the car would be off,” said Mr. Schaub’s son Doug.
Mr. Schaub is among more than two dozen people killed by carbon monoxide nationwide since 2006 after a keyless-ignition vehicle was inadvertently left running in a garage. Dozens of others have been injured, some left with brain damage.
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I haven’t left the car running in the garage but I once had to walk back to the car to figure out why it wouldn’t lock with the fob. It was still running, took me a minute to figure out why because I couldn’t hear the engine.
The controls are also very prone to computer glitches. Often they cause more problems than their ‘convenience’ creates.
I do it as well. I am in and out of the car all day. When in a hurry. I sometimes forget to even shut off the car. The fact that I can not get the key out without putting it in to park is a benefit.
I just do not see it as a convenient piece of equipment.
It seems more silly than convenient.
Why does every single post have to turn political? This article is about keyless cars and has absolutely nothing to do with politics. There is more to life than politics.
One track minds I guess.
I am married and have five sons. We hang our keys up at the door. That way if we have to move cars, we can do so without allot of yelling for other people.
Really? How lazy have we become?
“-———watch her spend 10 minutes trying to find the keys in her purse.”
Ten minutes? Exaggerate much?
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I don’t get it. I thought one didn’t need the key to START the car, but still had to turn and remove the key to STOP.
Our newest car is like that. I don’t get how one could have the key and the car is still running.
What kind of idiot doesn’t use a garage for a car?
I hear you. Decades ago my mom actually left her keys in the car with the engine running for about 11 hours. She parked at the train station, the train was just coming in, so very loud and a big rush. She had just topped off her gas tank the day before...not quite as much when she got back, but the big American engine putted on like a champ!
If we were truly lazy, we wouldn't drive automobiles at all.
Human progress will always make life relatively easier but will also introduce new complexities to life that earlier generations will find overwhelming. Imagine pulling a farmer from the 1800s and putting him in a modern John Deere tractor. He'd likely shrivel up into the fetal position and beg to be put back on his mule.
It’s time that our side ENGAGES - everything is political with the Left and they will keep defeating us, if we don’t do the same.
I park our car in the garage all the time. I turn the car off before I get out. I get annoyed when my husband starts the car and then goes inside for something because he has a tendency to forget that the car is on.
Wouldn’t you want a limited range so the car would turn off when you left?
What is so hard about installing a $30 CO detector in the house? Takes about 5 minutes. People like keyless ignition because you don’t have to dig the fob out of your purse or pocket.
I just don’t see it as a convenience.
Sorry. What are the benefits that exceed the potential hazards?
You can start a car by pushing a button, I can start it by turning a key. I don’t see the big time saver. You still need the fob/key and when I want to exit the car. I am unable to remove the key if the car is not in park and I lock the car by using the key fob.
“The controls are also very prone to computer glitches. Often they cause more problems than their ‘convenience’ creates.”
Please provide data to support your fake news ...
So politics on articles about keyless cars. Got it. That’ll crush them for sure.
Huh?
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