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Post by Peace77 on Jul 10, 2014 20:14:32 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 20:16:54 GMT -5
Don't count on it. I know some who would be stupid enough to do it.
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Post by Opti on Jul 10, 2014 20:21:46 GMT -5
If I had a kid I'd prefer leaving my purse in the back because I always carry my purse as that's where my DL is. For those of us who drive stick, driving without a left shoe would be a pain and feel unbalanced.
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Post by mollyanna58 on Jul 10, 2014 20:36:06 GMT -5
Like any other reminder, it would work if one did it every single time.
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Post by Opti on Jul 10, 2014 20:47:32 GMT -5
Maybe an enterprising car company can come up with something. When you get out of the car, it can say "Your child is in the back seat." and repeat it.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Jul 10, 2014 20:51:21 GMT -5
Maybe an enterprising car company can come up with something. When you get out of the car, it can say "Your child is in the back seat." and repeat it.
Not enough. The car should automatically notify the police every time the driver side car door is opened, so an officer can be dispatched and check to make sure there is not a kid in the car.
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Post by Tiny on Jul 10, 2014 20:59:56 GMT -5
Not enough. The car should automatically notify the police every time the driver side car door is opened, so an officer can be dispatched and check to make sure there is not a kid in the car. Maybe a built in component could go ding ding ding ding if the enhine is turned off and there is x weight in the designated car seat spot....like with seatbelts, or leaving headlights on... Yeah that... or maybe if a seatbelt in the back seat(s) is engaged (to hold in the car seat) and the drivers/passenger door is opened the car could ding ding.... again like with the lights being on.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Jul 10, 2014 21:01:29 GMT -5
Not enough. The car should automatically notify the police every time the driver side car door is opened, so an officer can be dispatched and check to make sure there is not a kid in the car. Maybe a built in component could go ding ding ding ding if the enhine is turned off and there is x weight in the designated car seat spot....like with seatbelts, or leaving headlights on... Some jackass would be like, "I usually have my sand bag there so I ignore the dinging but last night I took it out and this morning my wife was sick so I was supposed to take my daughter to day care and I forgot. Why me??" The only way is to get an independent third party to check the car.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 10, 2014 21:03:04 GMT -5
Not a bad idea. If you are a woman and driving to work, drive with one heeled shoe and one flat shoe/sneaker. Or if a male going to work, one dress shoe and one sneaker. The mate of either one on the back seat floor. While the male's shoes will be pretty level on the floor, someone at work will point out the shoe type difference pretty quickly. Any tip is a good tip to not kill a kid.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Jul 10, 2014 21:03:27 GMT -5
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jul 10, 2014 21:18:38 GMT -5
If you open the car door with the key still in the ignition, you get the "ding" ding" ding" signal that the key is still in the ignition - how about automakers add another signal to new vehicles - when you open the car door, a voice-command says "check back seat".
You then have to open the back seat door to de-activate the signal before closing & locking your vehicle.
This of course wouldn't work for vehicles currently in use, but common sense tells me that anyone with half a brain and an infant/toddler or child who still rides strapped into the back, should automatically KNOW they have their child with them in the vehicle.
I find it hard to fathom someone could be so distracted to forget they have their kid with them.
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Post by Regis on Jul 10, 2014 21:31:04 GMT -5
Maybe I'm different (no comments, please) but I now have three adult kids and never once did I forget that any of them were in the car with me when they were younger.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 10, 2014 21:50:11 GMT -5
Maybe I'm different (no comments, please) but I now have three adult kids and never once did I forget that any of them were in the car with me when they were younger. Not even a Comment?
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Post by Tiny on Jul 10, 2014 22:50:56 GMT -5
Maybe a built in component could go ding ding ding ding if the enhine is turned off and there is x weight in the designated car seat spot....like with seatbelts, or leaving headlights on... Some jackass would be like, "I usually have my sand bag there so I ignore the dinging but last night I took it out and this morning my wife was sick so I was supposed to take my daughter to day care and I forgot. Why me??" The only way is to get an independent third party to check the car. Hmm, maybe you got something there - how about starting a service (hire some of those Millennials who aren't working) where you have someone ride around with you and remind you to take your kid(s)/Pets/etc out of the car when you exit it.
It would need a snappy name.... help me here...
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jul 11, 2014 10:04:46 GMT -5
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jul 11, 2014 10:37:52 GMT -5
If you open the car door with the key still in the ignition, you get the "ding" ding" ding" signal that the key is still in the ignition - how about automakers add another signal to new vehicles - when you open the car door, a voice-command says "check back seat".
You then have to open the back seat door to de-activate the signal before closing & locking your vehicle.
This of course wouldn't work for vehicles currently in use, but common sense tells me that anyone with half a brain and an infant/toddler or child who still rides strapped into the back, should automatically KNOW they have their child with them in the vehicle.
I find it hard to fathom someone could be so distracted to forget they have their kid with them. But what about the people who don't have kids and don't want to hear "check the back seat" every time they go somewhere? IF you make it a feature that can be turned off, parents are still going to turn if off and forget to turn it back on again.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jul 11, 2014 11:00:10 GMT -5
Maybe I'm different (no comments, please) but I now have three adult kids and never once did I forget that any of them were in the car with me when they were younger. Since your kids were babies, there have been an increase in child safety laws, and after each time they have changed the laws, there has been an uptick in car deaths like this. I read the first one was with the front passenger airbags, so no baby seats in the front. The second one was the need to turn them rear facing in the back seat.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Jul 11, 2014 11:03:28 GMT -5
If you open the car door with the key still in the ignition, you get the "ding" ding" ding" signal that the key is still in the ignition - how about automakers add another signal to new vehicles - when you open the car door, a voice-command says "check back seat".
You then have to open the back seat door to de-activate the signal before closing & locking your vehicle.
This of course wouldn't work for vehicles currently in use, but common sense tells me that anyone with half a brain and an infant/toddler or child who still rides strapped into the back, should automatically KNOW they have their child with them in the vehicle.
I find it hard to fathom someone could be so distracted to forget they have their kid with them. There were some mornings that I was walking into work from the parking garage and I was on such auto pilot that I did not remember the drive in at all. It was particularly bad when I was in school, or when I had worked late. I don't have kids, and I can see this.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2014 11:08:34 GMT -5
If you open the car door with the key still in the ignition, you get the "ding" ding" ding" signal that the key is still in the ignition - how about automakers add another signal to new vehicles - when you open the car door, a voice-command says "check back seat".
You then have to open the back seat door to de-activate the signal before closing & locking your vehicle.
This of course wouldn't work for vehicles currently in use, but common sense tells me that anyone with half a brain and an infant/toddler or child who still rides strapped into the back, should automatically KNOW they have their child with them in the vehicle.
I find it hard to fathom someone could be so distracted to forget they have their kid with them. My van does all kinds of crap when I open the door. It dings if the keys are in, there's a different ding if the lights, are on, then one if a passenger door is open, shit, I'm pretty sure it makes noise no matter what. I still have people remind me a few times a year that my lights are on when I'm walking in. I really live inside my head a lot and like Mich, I've made drives to town with no memory of the actual trip.
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Post by Angel! on Jul 11, 2014 11:38:09 GMT -5
This of course wouldn't work for vehicles currently in use, but common sense tells me that anyone with half a brain and an infant/toddler or child who still rides strapped into the back, should automatically KNOW they have their child with them in the vehicle.
I find it hard to fathom someone could be so distracted to forget they have their kid with them. You never just go on auto-pilot when driving to work? If your spouse is always the one to take the kid to daycare, except this one day, I could see just going on auto-pilot & getting to work & just spacing that you had to make an extra stop. I mean it isn't very likely at all to go the entire drive & get out of the car & walk off without at some point realizing, but then this doesn't happen very often either. I could see how it does happen though.
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 11, 2014 11:41:14 GMT -5
Do you all actually have quiet children? Jesus, mine never shut up for a minute unless they were asleep. Even before they could talk words there was always some kind of rambling noise in the back.
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Post by movingforward on Jul 11, 2014 11:56:22 GMT -5
I have been on auto pilot plenty of times while driving but what is sort of hard for me to understand in regards to forgetting you have a kid in the car is fact that getting that kid into the car is a task. You have to get them in the car seat, buckle them in, etc so it's not like they get in the car all by themselves. You know you put them there.
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jul 11, 2014 12:29:09 GMT -5
I have been on auto pilot plenty of times while driving but what is sort of hard for me to understand in regards to forgetting you have a kid in the car is fact that getting that kid into the car is a task. You have to get them in the car seat, buckle them in, etc so it's not like they get in the car all by themselves. You know you put them there. One of the articles I read said only half of the kids that died in cars were in car seats. The rest were either old enough to get in & out without one or they had been playing and got in the car on accident.
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Post by alabamagal on Jul 11, 2014 12:30:30 GMT -5
Do you all actually have quiet children? Jesus, mine never shut up for a minute unless they were asleep. Even before they could talk words there was always some kind of rambling noise in the back. Mine always fell asleep in the car. If I had to go into a store, it was tempting to leave them there asleep rather than wake them up, drag them into the store and have them fussy and never to back to nap again. I never did that of course.
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Post by Peace77 on Jul 11, 2014 13:28:59 GMT -5
This of course wouldn't work for vehicles currently in use, but common sense tells me that anyone with half a brain and an infant/toddler or child who still rides strapped into the back, should automatically KNOW they have their child with them in the vehicle.
I find it hard to fathom someone could be so distracted to forget they have their kid with them. There are parents so distracted that they forget to out the kid in the car in the first place. I don't have time to find the story now but there was a Mom who set the car seat on top of the car with the baby in it and drive off with the baby on top of the car. When she turned at an intersection the car seat fell off the car. Fortunately, the seat landed right side up and the baby wasn't hurt. Other drivers saw the baby and took care of it.
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Post by Angel! on Jul 11, 2014 13:32:14 GMT -5
This of course wouldn't work for vehicles currently in use, but common sense tells me that anyone with half a brain and an infant/toddler or child who still rides strapped into the back, should automatically KNOW they have their child with them in the vehicle.
I find it hard to fathom someone could be so distracted to forget they have their kid with them. There are parents so distracted that they forget to out the kid in the car in the first place. I don't have time to find the story now but there was a Mom who set the car seat on top of the car with the baby in it and drive off with the baby on top of the car. When she turned at an intersection the car seat fell off the car. Fortunately, the seat landed right side up and the baby wasn't hurt. Other drivers saw the baby and took care of it. I don't think I could get my car seat on the roof of the car. Either a very strong woman or much taller than me.
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Post by hoops902 on Jul 11, 2014 16:48:02 GMT -5
::If you open the car door with the key still in the ignition, you get the "ding" ding" ding" signal that the key is still in the ignition - how about automakers add another signal to new vehicles - when you open the car door, a voice-command says "check back seat".
You then have to open the back seat door to de-activate the signal before closing & locking your vehicle.::
The last thing I want as someone without kids is to have to open my back door every single time I get out of the car.
And what happens when I ignore the voice because I've heard it for the billionth time and shut my car? Does it just not lock? (lawsuit) Does the voice just keep going while I walk away? (dead battery)
I feel like the only thing that would happen is everyone would gravitate to the cars that didn't do this.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Jul 11, 2014 17:55:48 GMT -5
Buy a $20.00 pair of devices that beep loudly if separated by more than 10 meters or if signal contact is lost for more than 30 seconds. Have one attached to the baby carrier that you habitually activate as you're putting the child in, and one in your purse/briefcase/etc.
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Post by Shooby on Jul 11, 2014 18:00:05 GMT -5
Do you all actually have quiet children? Jesus, mine never shut up for a minute unless they were asleep. Even before they could talk words there was always some kind of rambling noise in the back. My kids were very quiet in the car . Just notbig talkers.
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Post by chen35 on Jul 11, 2014 19:38:15 GMT -5
I think if I could be 100% sure to remember to put my shoe next to the car seat (and I'm not saying I could), I could be 100% sure to remember not to leave the kid in the car.
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