They are. The people who do this? They are you and me and your neighbor.

Check out this article: Fatal Distraction, it won a Pulitzer Prize. It's about how the mind works and why this incident keeps happening over and over again.

Yes they are. And if you think you're better than these people and couldn't forget and have a slip up you are wrong.

We hope. Probably preaching to the choir, but even five minutes in 90+, it can get dangerously hot inside a car.

Also, even if it’s not, there’s other dangers. It’s all around just not cool.

The reason to call the cops right off is so they get there faster.

If the kid is going to die in the seconds it takes to make get them rolling, they’re probably going to die outside the car, too. On the other hand, the sooner they get there, the faster they get advanced care.

Additionally, it provides a bit of legal protection, having dispatch on the phone.

Also, not even animal control will break into a car- they let the cops do that. The last time I dealt with it the cops waited for them to make the call that it was necessary.

There was a puppy in the back of an suv. The window was cracked but the puppy was in a dog crate covered in blankets. The car interior was just under the threshold at like 90 or something, but the crate when they did open it was at like 105. It was a little cocker spaniel that was the sweetest little cuddle-bug.

The assholes left the dog in the back in 90-degree weather to go to a baseball game. The worst part is that they could go pick up the dog after paying a fine. That dog deserved better humans.

I'm missing the joke.

I thought that one was about letting the baby drive the car. Did they mention the ambient air temperature or any locally posted heat warnings in that one? Can't remember all the lyrics.

I didn't want to read the article because I expected horrible things written in there. Like this.

Thanks

Same.

It still makes me tear up every time I skim it, yeah.

An award winning journalist, the only one to have will two Pulitzers for features, this being one of them: "here's a horrifying thing that can happen to anyone."

Some random dipshit: "what an idiot."

There's a reason the article won a Pulitzer. Maybe you could give it a try

“That article can’t change my mind because I can’t read!”

I know I'm being pedantic but murder requires intent, it seems that the majority of these cases are manslaughter, still illegal though and just as sad.

I can see the headlines about the first time it’s rolled out… all the headlines are short people being mad that they were flagged as kids

I've had rental cars chirp back at me when I tried to lock them because my backpack was in the back seat.

PIR occupancy sensor + thermometer + window open sensor + seat occupancy sensor/scale + door lock/child lock sensor + decibel limit on microphone already in car

Technically possible, yes. Most of the equipment is already there. It's just a matter of tuning everything to work together to solve the specific problem. The bigger problem in my eyes is most people would treat this as a perfect solution instead of a last resort like what happened with Tesla's FSD.

This is already in a bunch of cars. Just doesn't call police.

It’s more a question of money than feasibility. I’m pretty sure a couple manufacturers already have basic capabilities similar to this

Just turn on the fan if there's someone inside and it gets above 40C

Aside from the big brother distopian nightmare this proposal enables

A car knowing when I left a child in the backseat? Basically the same as my thoughts being censored by Big Brother.

It's my right and my freedom to let people I am responsible for die in a heatwave!

As someone who has no kids and doesn't transport kids, no thanks. I don't need it going off because I have random stuff in the back.

Babies cannot press panic buttons...

Then the problem is with privacy laws that allow abuse and poor regulation, not with more capable cars.

It can be done in a way that does not affect privacy. If you lock your car while there's still a person detected on the back seat, it will sound an alarm.

Yup we should let preventable deaths happen just so you can feel an inch more private.

Totally reasonable.

To quote my dog’s vet, not only can you fix stupid, but it’s quite a simple procedure.

You can't fix human arrogance.

I wonder if it's because 2-year-olds are usually pretty noisy, so when they've fallen asleep, it's easier to forget that they're even back there.

I mean, that's probably the only edible thing you can cook in a hot car.

3rd largest population in the world

I’m curious how you came about this statistic?

I literally live in a country that's hotter than the US and this rarely if ever happens. I'm not sure it's just media bias.

I don't want to shatter your worldview or anything, but the continent of africa has in fact cars. Also a very hot climate.

What they don't have is american brain rot.

There you go, that's one thing...provide a hole at the top of the heat pile...the window cracking option could be one but it is not fail safe. Maybe the top of the roof is open all the time unless the ignition is on. That way if all power fails, there would be air flow through the interior.

Next human detection. That's nice, but if the roof was solar panels, it could power up a good sized fan. With 100W for example, I was able to power a car radiator fan and that's like a house extractor fan.