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Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll
NY Times ^ | 13 May 2018 | David Jeans and Majlie De Puy Kamp

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: autosafety; keylessignition
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To: Jim from C-Town

” I sometimes forget to even shut off the car. “

If one cannot even turn off a major piece of machinery when finished using it, one should not be using it.


121 posted on 05/13/2018 11:37:25 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: raybbr

“Wouldn’t you want a limited range so the car would turn off when you left?”

What range and how do you determine range?


122 posted on 05/13/2018 11:42:56 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: sheana

...fair point. Probably went too far.


123 posted on 05/13/2018 11:43:29 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Jim from C-Town

“What are the benefits that exceed the potential hazards?”

I keep my fob on my belt and it doesn’t get lost.


124 posted on 05/13/2018 11:47:34 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Jim from C-Town

“Sorry. What are the benefits that exceed the potential hazards?”

I keep my fob on my belt so no way I can lock my keys in the car!


125 posted on 05/13/2018 11:49:46 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: oh8eleven

I have a hard time thinking that this is a keyless ignition problem. This is simply a failure to turn off the damn car. Cars are supposed to beep if you open the door while the key is in the ignition. They are also supposed to beep if you get out of a running keyless ignition car. In any case, devices fail and people make mistakes. Nanny can’t be there for every danger. What about the building code requirement that attached garages must be fume proof? Do we ban garages, keyless ignitions or impaired people?


126 posted on 05/13/2018 11:58:52 AM PDT by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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To: oh8eleven

Me too and yes, it beeps.


127 posted on 05/13/2018 12:04:31 PM PDT by tiki
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To: Jim from C-Town
"Sorry. What are the benefits that exceed the potential hazards?"

Keys dropped in drain:


128 posted on 05/13/2018 12:05:14 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Steamburg

How many stories have we seen where someone got out of their car and locked the doors while leaving the key in the ignition and the car running ...


129 posted on 05/13/2018 12:06:54 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: BobL

I guess i’m an idiot since I park my two keyless Mercedes Benz and my keyless Corvette in my three car garage.


130 posted on 05/13/2018 12:08:41 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: euram; All
Apparently “Common sense isn’t common anymore.” I imagine these are the same people would stand in a shower while shaving with an electric razor.

“Duh, i’m too stooopid to shut off the car.”

131 posted on 05/13/2018 12:12:56 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Cobra64

“I imagine these are the same people would stand in a shower while shaving with an electric razor.”

Do they even make plug-in razors anymore?


132 posted on 05/13/2018 12:24:40 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Jim from C-Town
Nobody is clamoring to bring back the car key. Though if you really are a key-head, you can still extract a traditional metal key from your fob (people are always amazed when I show them this).

Eventually, the technology will get to the point where people can start their cars with their retinas or fingerprints - much like they do with cell phones. Keys will soon be an anachronism. But a few will still have them much like people still get those classic "retro" rotary phones.


133 posted on 05/13/2018 12:36:41 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: TexasGator

Good point. Perhaps give a verbal and display warning with a “Push button to keep going” option?


134 posted on 05/13/2018 12:38:30 PM PDT by null and void (Urban "food deserts," are caused by "climate change" in urban customers' attitudes (H/T niteowl77))
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To: Jim from C-Town

If you still have to carry around a key fob, then what’s the purpose of it being keyless?


135 posted on 05/13/2018 12:39:38 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: oh8eleven

My car will make a beep if you exit it with the fob and the engine is still running... and after 15 minutes or so of beeping will shut itself off if the fob does not return to being in the car.


136 posted on 05/13/2018 12:40:13 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: BobL
What type of idiot parks a car with a keyless ignition in a garage?

What a stupid question. We have two vehicle with keyless ignition that get parked in the garage. There is nothing inherently wrong with doing so. First of all, each vehicle alerts us when we get out with an audible signal if the engine is still running. Second, there is no path for exhaust fumes to enter the house from the garage unless the door is left open, which it never is. It's also got self-closing hinges. Thirdly, there are several CO detectors inside the house. I didn't work hard to buy a house with a garage just to leave my vehicles outside in Alaska winter conditions. Get clue.

137 posted on 05/13/2018 12:40:27 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
My BIL worked at GM until his retirement 15 years ago. His comment on emissions control was “We’ve suppressed emissions so much that if you’re going to try and kill yourself by running your car in the garage, you better bring something to read. It’s gonna take a long time.”

Do a YouTube search on "Hyundai suicide commercial" One of those commercials that never actually aired.

138 posted on 05/13/2018 12:41:58 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: catnipman

I guess the elderly are rich enough to have new cars. I don’t have to worry because my mom mobile is 10 years old. Lol.


139 posted on 05/13/2018 12:42:14 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: bgill

“If you still have to carry around a key fob, then what’s the purpose of it being keyless?”

I keep mine on my belt.

You don’t have to pull it out to:

Open the trunk

Open the doors

Start the car

I can’t lock it in the car with the car running

I won’t drop it in the drain


140 posted on 05/13/2018 12:43:08 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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