What do you think needs to be done, so that children aren't left in hot cars?
Division Chief Ryan Lamb of the Cape Coral Fire Department says every second counts when a child is left alone in a vehicle, no matter how cool it may seem to be outside. It monitors the use of the rear doors and alerts drivers with a chime and on-screen message as they turn off the vehicle that they put someone or something back there.
Kids and Cars, supports the bill and said her organization knows that education and awareness aren't enough to stop child deaths caused by heatstroke.
A new bill has been introduced that would require cars to alert drivers to check the back seat once it is turned off.
Accompanying tests done with a dark sedan on a sunny day found that cabin temperatures can rise to as high as 117 degrees in 60 minutes, even when the ambient temperature is as low as 72 degrees.
It's a problem that his been around for decades and each year children die because of it.
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Eleven deaths occurred in July alone, with two taking place last weekend.
That's according to Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.
Dr. David Diamond, a professor in the Departments of Psychology, Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida and an expert on neuroscience, said that a technological solution is essential because, in the majority of cases, children are left unknowingly by caring and devoted parents or caregivers.
"I'm passionate about it because I am that parent that lost a child who thought it would never happen to me", said Brown.
At least 729 children have died since 1998 from heatstroke in vehicles in the U.S. The annual total rose dramatically in the 1990s after juvenile deaths from cars' front-seat air bags peaked. Such technology exists and is available in some vehicles, including many of GM's 2017 and 2018 models. That is why it is imperative that there be a system to provide an alert to remind parents of the presence of a child in the back seat. It requires the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to set regulations for automakers, and for automakers to develop and implement the technology on new cars; the Senate bill also requires a study on retrofitting cars with reminder systems.
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