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The United States is on track to report its lowest number of pediatric hot car deaths in a year since record-keeping on the subject began more than three decades ago, and child safety groups are pointing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as a big factor.
With summer right around the corner, there have been two pediatric vehicular heatstroke fatalities across the country in 2020, well below normal for the first five-plus months of a calendar year. The average number of hot car deaths for children through June 10 is around nine, according to Jan Null, the founder of NoHeatStroke.org, a website that tracks hot car deaths across the country and analyzes vehicle heating dynamics.
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In past documented cases, the most likely days for children to gain access to a vehicle were Saturdays and Sundays, when school wasn't in session."With fewer parents and caregivers traveling to work, and fewer children attending childcare and pre-school, it is imperative that all drivers, even those without children, lock their unattended vehicles so children cannot gain access,"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @01:37PM (2 children)
This is what my city does with police cars for canine units. There's a temperature sensor, and when it exceeds the threshold, it automatically pages the officer and either turns on the air conditioning or rolls down the windows. Maybe turns the lights and siren on too, if memory serves.
So not only is it trivial to construct with existing technology, even the implementation already exists. No reason this couldn't be in all cars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 14 2020, @04:49PM (1 child)
There's no reason to install it in most cars, because leaving your children in the hot car is illegal.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MostCynical on Monday June 15 2020, @03:42AM
FTFY
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