Forgetting a Child in a Back Seat Can Kill. Cars May Soon Warn You.<br />And while automakers offer technology that steers a vehicle or alerts drivers to a car in the next lane,<br />they have not released technology to tell drivers when they are forgetting a child in the back seat.<br />And the proposed mandate for notification technology in cars misses the targeted population, because so few parents of young children buy new cars.”<br />This is not the first time that the Auto Alliance has dismissed the need for regulation.<br />“We shouldn’t overemphasize the effectiveness of technology,” he said, adding<br />that a government requirement for warning devices would initially have minimal impact, because the vast majority of cars on the road are years old.<br />After the proposed rules were released in July, the group said: “In particular, we are concerned about proposals where it takes many years before results are seen,<br />because 18 lives have already been lost this year in hot cars.<br />But congressional lawmakers are now weighing whether to require new cars to include a device for detecting children in the back seat<br />and warning the driver of their presence after the car has been turned off.<br />While some automakers, like Hyundai, General Motors<br />and Nissan, have voluntarily developed some types of warning systems, the auto industry has been reluctant to add the technology required by the bills.
