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Waze's New Safety Feature Reminds Drivers Not To Forget Their Child In the Car (go.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: The navigation app Waze has released a new safety feature that reminds users not to forget their child, pet or other loved ones in the car before getting out. The feature, called "Child reminder," was made available to the public on Thursday, when Waze released its latest update on app stores for Android and iOS. The new feature comes amid concerns over recent child hot car deaths. Since 1998, there have been 37 child heatstroke fatalities on average per year in the U.S., according to the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University in California. Waze's Head of Brand, Julie Mossler said in a statement: "Just as drivers sometimes forget to turn off their headlights, they sometimes forget things in the car too. This new feature helps keep people present in the vehicle and gives them an important, possibly life-saving reminder, that drivers sometimes need." The "Child reminder" feature is opt-in and can be turned on and off in the app's "general settings." Mossler also said that drivers can customize the alert "to include their child's name or pet's name -- anything that will get their attention at the end of a drive." It will only disappear if a driver has entered a destination in Waze and has arrived at that destination.
I dont want to live in this world anymore...
If you need reminded to get your child or pet out of the car, then you need your life license revoked...
Just like it's a Good Idea to check the back seat before you get into your car, it's a good idea to check the back before before you get out.
Oh, and maybe turn off the goddamned phone once in a while so you're less distracted.
yes. twins no less. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireS...
Imagine the explaining you'd have to do if you forgot just one.
Have gnu, will travel.
Thanks in large part to idiots trying to prevent other idiots from removing themselves from the genepool.
Only it is meant metaphorically now. So this at least gave me a laugh.
Of course it is completely useless, as somebody distracted enough to to leave a small child in a car in hot weather will also ignore such a warning. Accidents do happen, and for some people attention to critical detail is something that has to be drilled into them as they are always distracted. Of course, such drills cannot be enforced without going full-authoritarian. Punishment after the fact is not going to help one bit either (but will make things worse).
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I'd like to see a high-heat alarm that's armed when the car sit buckles are fastened. Bonus if it can connect to the car's alarm.
Yes, yes it shouldn't be needed. It it may be help save a few lives if parents care to use it.
Actually, the way to deal with things like this is pretty much established: You do checklists and you never, ever skip them. When they have become part of the routine, you can rule out basically all such accidents that can reasonably be predicted. Of course, this takes a high level of discipline and that is why this is enforced only in cases where a lot of damage could ensue, like pilots. It is basically impossible to explain the necessity to ordinary people (look at all the "could never happen to me" idiots here), because ordinary people do not understand the mechanisms and that it can happen to anybody. It can also not be imposed by force, because it is too intrusive for a free society to tolerate something like that.
But if you want to prevent this happening to you, run trough a checklist that has "child" as one of the things on it whenever you lock your car. I used something like this because I kept forgetting my wallet or my work keys at home. After a few weeks it becomes a reflex which costs you a totally irrelevant 2-3 seconds each time and then the risk is mitigated.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
ALL modern app appers know that only Darwin-defeating apps can app apps! Only LUDDITES subject themselves to natural selection!
This is how I keep track of my shit. I have a list I go through on the way out the door out of the car and when I get where I am going.
Wallet
Keys
Cellphone
Tablet
Headphones
Name Badge (when coming to / going from work)
Backpack
Jacket
When I and the wife have a spawn it will be on the list until it is old enough to open car doors on its own.
As for keeping pets in the vehicle only assholes bring their dog everywhere.
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Having worked retail. The workers hate you if you bring your "precious" little shit factory inside. They bark and growl piss shit and and make nuisances of themselves. The only reason they don't tell you to take your dog out and not come back until you can figure out how to leave the thing at home is because corporations are afraid of the Americans with Disabilities Act biting them in the ass. Because they aren't allowed to ban service animals and even if they are unmarked. And customers will lie to claim they are service animals and lie to managers that will fire associates that ask or tell customers no non service animals allowed even when it is company policy.
I remember one time I had a customer who repeatedly brought their non service animal in and it would try to attack other customers but managment wouldn't see anything out of fear even the company policy said no dogs allowed.
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Please do. We don't need your whining.
Just another day in Paradise
Actually, the way to deal with things like this is pretty much established: You do checklists and you never, ever skip them.
Checklists help, but many people are incapable of using them on regular basis. Period. Just like many people can't run marathon distances or lift 200kg weight.
The only real solution is some kind of warm body detector connected to car's alarm system. Doors locked + body insde = alarm, always.
Maybe Americans need to learn how to treat their dogs.
Here in Sweden, people take their dogs everywhere, even on the subway. Seldom if ever any problems.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
What, you're still here?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
or maybe I'll make a social mobile flash gamification app for this.
I dont think you understand what those words mean, grandpa.
Anyway, you just use Google Now to do this. No social, no flash, no gamification, no buzzword bingo. http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how...
Well, yes and no. One problem with such a sensor is that if it fails (and technology does fail), the manufacturer would suffer huge losses. That is apparently a key reason why there are no such sensors these days. The litigation culture of the US has shot itself in the foot here massively. Hence it must be something that the parent does and that requires discipline.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Well, a networked health-tracker on the kid would be a good idea, but it would need to come with a) immunity of the manufacturer from litigation when it fails as long as it was a reasonably reliable product (which will be hard to sell to a lot of people, but it is the reality in litigation-nation and technology cannot be perfect) and b) be provided for free. In Europe, this could for example be something the health insurance provides to parents as a loan until the kids are old enough to fend for themselves in such a situation. Still, it would need to be the parents that make sure it is on the kid and there are privacy implications and risks from hacking. Despite that, I do believe it will eventually be the solution to problems like this.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Well, maybe you should give others a good example and start with yourself?
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Step 1, remove left shoe. You won't be using it because bimbo boxes are automatic
Step 2, put left shoe in back seat next to child
Done and done
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There's a word for an organism that voluntarily "subjects itself" to natural selection.
That word is "cull".
Because natural selection, unlike ITGs, is actually tough. It does not give a fuck about your desire to feel superior. It does not give points for your delusions of infallibility. It does not play fair and it does not care if you do. It only cares about success.
If you pass up an easy way to assure success, natural selection will be completely happy to kill you.
You live in its world. It does not live in yours.