I don’t care whether it was General Motors or Nissan who came up with it first, I’m just bothered that it exists at all: a reminder device that something is in the backseat. Or the signs on the DOT billboards as I roam the highways, such as the one in the lead photo reminding you that you might have placed your child in the backseat of the vehicle and that when you stop at your next destination, that you don’t do something so irresponsible as to leave the kid, or the dog, or the half-eaten Snickers bar you left sitting on the mauve leather seats, in the car to bake in the hot summer sun.
I can’t even believe this is a thing. I grew up with some rather loose restrictions as a kid, but if my mother didn’t know where I was every waking second she wasn’t at work, divine intervention was the only thing that was going to save my hide. There was no leaving me alone in the car…after the age of five, it was well-known that I’d try to drive off and that I could do it. My brother would drain the battery blasting horrible music. And there was no possible way that any human that isn’t clinically deaf could forget that we were in the backseat with the constant warfare!
So someone please tell me, why it is that licensed adults, people that state governments believe are responsible enough to operate a motor vehicle, cannot remember that a child or animal was left in a car that will become a broiler in a matter of minutes even on a slightly warm day? Why is it that yet another electronic system that adds weight and complexity to an already complex automobile has to be added to remind the genius behind the wheel that Baby might still be in their carseat, and that they should remember to take the young one with them when they head park the vehicle?
Up the standards, folks. Don’t punish the good because a few bad can’t cope.
Well, I’m sure if you research this, there most likely is a court case that someone claimed the automaker didn’t have a reminder , That there was anything else on an interior seat. Between that and the amount of mindless parents .
How can you forget you have a child!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Should have to take a test before you are allowed to breed..
Maybe have a license before you are allowed to breed.
these same people need a reminder to turn on the lights before driving at night..
Have you ever forgotten to turn on your headlights at night and travelled a block or two?
no…. I haven’t. I have a car that if it’s f’n dark out, you can’t see the gauges. Pretty simple, but the newer cars have “dumbed” this too.
No.
We rode in the front seat alongside of mom back in the 50’s. Any “car seat” was the one with a steering wheel, horn and shifter…ever watch the Simpsons? (Mom broke the horn…for good reason) 🙂
As Keanu Reeves said in Parenthood. “You have to have a license to have a dog, but anyone can have a kid.” In Mississippi, there was a TV campaign that said to put your cell phone in the back seat with your kid. Implying that you would remember your phone, but not the fact that you had a kid!
Proof that idiots and morons can breed, and that innocent kids pay the price. As for another sensor on a car- I have less and less interest in owning a new car every day…
I never watch tv but the news happened to be on when i powered the thing up. There was a segment on the “news” where the woman reporter was showing people how to buckle their purse in the back of a minivan so you don’t forget your kids are in there… Seriously… here reasoning was ,”put something important back there that you’ll need where you are going so you don’t forget your child.” WTF. Society needs an enema.
There isn’t an actual sensor it just notices if the rear doors were opened before starting out. Just a little software. No blood no foul.
Bang on. This is sort of software makes sense.
A nation of helpless, dimwitted phone-tards…I can’t wait until someone invents an automated ass-wiper…
Two different things being dealt with here. People making mistakes versus needing personal care.
You will NEVER eliminate mistakes…mistakes are how humans learn…this is what the people who are “just trying to help” don’t get…
You can’t learn from mistakes, if someone is always holding your hand. If you’re stupid enough to leave something in the backseat, you should have taken with you, you deserve to suffer the consequences. People need to be responsible for what they do. You don’t learn by always being reminded you need to do something.
\”Suffer the consequences\”….Like having their kid die?
Well – that’s what you get in a country where MacDonalds and KFC are the gods of the religion of obesity, a rich petulant retard is voted President and there are millions of Chevy lovers.
Dim witted phone-tards indeed Gary!
Just take one look at your London mayor Geordie, and all of the recent acts of terrorism in London. Brought to you by your own liberalism.
When the movie Idiocracy becomes a documentary.
In the US, twentynine children have expired in automobiles since January first. Somebody at Nissan realized the exponential loss in sales…
It’s annoying but it’s just software and if it saves one life it’s worth it.
I think you can turn it off in some cars through the radio settings.
I don’t see the big deal. Good, honest and mindful people make mistakes; however, this sort of mistake results in the loss of life of a baby or child who is at the mercy of their caregiver at all times. A little buzz to remind someone is great.
It’s not a reminder that you left your lights on or that you left a jug of milk in the trunk which leads to inconvenience.
Those of you who complain about such a warning device will be the first to scream they should be mandatory if someone they loved fell victim to a caregiver’s mistake.
Kul Sid, thanks for being the voice of reason. Anybody who has kids and has to go put up with shit for today’s retarded wages needs any help they can get. And that’s a lot of Americans these day. I bet a lot of the comment authors above do not have kids, or their wife takes care of the child transporting.
You said:
“Those of you who complain about such a warning device will be the first to scream they should be mandatory if someone they loved fell victim to a caregiver’s mistake.”
NAILED IT!
Leaving a child in a car, is not a mistake. It’s a complete lack of responsibility.
Good thing I will never have to worry about owning any vehicle with this technology. I never forgot my kids because they are a priority in my life, not snapgram or twitface. They are also grown to where I would never be able to forget them anyway since they never shut up. I dont plop an iPad in front of them like most parents today, so I am forced to interact with their young growing minds. Must just be an exceptional American.
Hey Gordie are you kidding me?! It was probably developed by some British safety institue. I never saw so much chickenshit babysitting nonsense as I saw in the U.K. Cant even say Ladies and Gentlemen on the tube anymore,might upset someone. Pathetic. Chevy’s, yeah,what you got? British Leyland and VW’s,Great….
Like I’ve said before kids now days are the ignored generation, go anywhere you’ll see mom and dad snuggled around there cell phone with kids sitting there, ignored!!!
The “I forgot” is just an excuse to avoid responsibility. When the worst happens, it just sounds better than admitting that their own
bad judgment put the child or pet in that dangerous situation.
With this technology one can put the responsibility on the machine!
\”Save the children!\” The parents are beyond saving! LOL!!