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In Florida, and probably a few other places as well, there's a serious problem that comes up several times a year - someone leaves their child in a carseat while they go run an errand. With the windows closed the inside of the car rapidly heats up and the child dies. It would be nice if carseats came
with a weight sensor, temperature gauge and alarm, all connected so that if the temperature rose above a certain point and the carseat detected a child in it then the alarm would sound. (It would also be nice if this came with an optional attachment that would hook onto the inside of a window - the idea being that if the alarm sounded for more than a few minutes it would blow a hole in the window.)
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How sad that such an invention would even be needed. When ideas that are intended to help stupid people come up on the halfbakery, they are not met without controversy. ... I give it a + anyway |
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Alternative idea: Shoot the parents. |
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I'll give it bread, just because some people need to hear a light and sound extravaganza before they realize they're doing something stupid. Boning an idea simply because it attempts to protect the innocent from the ignorant is not a happy thing. |
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Weight sensor lights up sign that reads "baby on board" or something. Security officers see the sign is still lit up after parent leaves through use of parking lot cameras, gets the baby out of the car, and punishes/tickets parent when they get through shopping. |
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I have three children, by way of trying to explain why my feelings on the need for this invention pass rationality. |
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What ever it takes to keep some waste of oxygen from killing a baby, I'm all for. Take a moment to imagine the agony of that death, physically. And although a baby won't really be able to process it, think about what it means to be so valueless in the eyes of the people charged with your care that it never even registers that you are dying as terrible a death as I care to consider for even a few seconds. The reasons I don’t agree with [shapu] about shooting the parents are that they may have other children that need them (hard to imagine), shooting would be too quick and I can just remotely imagine this being a mistake so out of character that the death of the child beginning to punish the parent (assuming that the parent actually did care). |
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So, although I may agree wholly because of emotion, I give the idea a bun. |
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I'm guessing that the kind of people who leave their babies in a car are not the kind of people who spend extra money on fancy baby seats. |
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//weight sensor, temperature gauge and alarm//
This won't work. Aside from cost and reliability issues, now you have Car Alarm Syndrome: twenty-seven Hot Baby Alarms blaring all day in the mall parking lot.
//blow a hole in the window//
Absolutely not. Please, I'll bun this for the stupid alarm, if you eliminate flying glass. [Later: the car seat could instead start the engine and run the air conditioner, or roll down the windows and start a fan.] |
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How about a task force that patrols, and if they see a baby in an airless car, breaks in and captures your baby. They take baby to a nice van parked nearby with nurses and a day-care center inside it. |
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Now you're talkin'! Is this FREE day care? |
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Okay, I'll eliminate the flying glass if that gets the seat built. |
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I like the lighted 'baby on board' sign. That would at least give the kid a chance and make any false alarms less bothersome. |
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Why does it get a bone Contracts?
I'm all for protecting the innocent from the stupid. The fact that this type of problem exists to require a solution sickens me though. |
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How about, you cannot lock the doors of your car if the seat belts are fastened on the baby seat? And all the windows drop down half way if the car is left for more than 2mins with kid strapped in? Surely it's possible to fit the seats and cars with the required electronics. |
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"Now you're talkin'! Is this FREE day care?" |
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Could be subsidized by the local auto glass repair shops, who would be getting a significant boost in business w/ phundog's idea. |
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// I can't say that this is really worse than the parents who leave the spaghetti pot unattended, or parents who leave a refrigerator on the back of the pickup overnight before taking it to the dump.// |
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Excepting, of course, that there's nobody who gets upset when a refrigerator is left behind in a truck. And nobody dies. |
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How about a microphone inside the vehicle, and a big speaker outside?
Do these people leave the car/ air con. running when they leave the baby in the car? Or do they lock it all up?
Any more background info? |
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[shapu] I think [scout] was saying that kids also die because they pull pots of boiling water on themselves and get severely burnt or climb inside of 'fridges and suffocate. |
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A note to all potential baby-leavers: leaving babies in a car can get you jail time and lose you custody of your children(temporarily if not permanently). It happened once that I know of, because I was involved in the whole sordid mess. |
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