While this suggestion is well-intentioned, it’s an expensive solution that benefits a tiny number of cases. (Two?) As a parent, I would have rather had the effort spent on standardizing car seat installation. Most of them are a royal pain in the ass to set up; and once you’re done, you tend not to move it.

Also, I lost count how many times the only way to soothe my child to sleep was to take her on a late-night car ride. Typically when I got home, also exhausted, we’d both sleep in the car parked in the garage) until she woke up. The last thing I’d want is to wake her up.

1 response | Cheer this | 9 months ago (Oct 18, 12:12PM)

That’s a really good idea. It seems like leaving a child in the car seat unattended is especially dangerous when it’s really hot or cold outside. So the alarm should probably go off if the interior of the car reaches a dangerous temperature OR if the child has been in the car over a certain period of time. Also, when the alarm goes off the car should also probably unlock the doors and/or roll down the windows.

Respond | Cheer this | 9 months ago (Oct 06, 05:13PM)

This year lone, there have been TOO many deaths of infants/young children because they were accidentally left in vehicles for too long. Life is getting more hectic and people are often distracted; if this safety feature were added to vehicles, it WOULD save the lives of many children. With today’s technology, the car makers and car seat manufactures working together could come up with car seats that plug into the vehicles alarm system and would sound the alarm when it is sensed that a child is still in the seat a minute or so after the engine has been turned off.

1 response | 1 cheer | Cheer this | 10 months ago (Sep 15, 07:30AM)