Three Virgina high schoolers develop app to prevent hot car deaths

[underpants]

York High students create innovative system to prevent hot car deaths

http://wavy.com/2017/01/31/york-high-students-create-innovative-system-to-prevent-hot-car-deaths/

The inventors have been working on the project for nearly two years. They say what started as a science project has turned into a lifesaving device.

Fields, Fox and McCabe say all you have to do is download the iPhone app and install sensors into your child’s car seat and your child is protected. If you walk away and the sensors detect a child in the car, the app will send you a notification on your smart phone.

“There are two sensors… They are infrared break beam sensors, so when a child sits in the car seat, it breaks the connection and turns on the Bluetooth proximity sensor,” said Fox.

The app allows users to customize a child’s name and add emergency contacts. The system that comes with the app can be installed in any car seat you want.


“It’s a human life, you can’t trade it for anything,” said Fox.

[myrna minx]

1. K&R - That's incredible!

[LeftInTX]

2. Awesome!

[bathroommonkey76]

3. Really?

If you are dumb enough to leave a child in a hot/cold car for 8 hours then you shouldn't be a parent-- Sorry, it had to be said.

[lostnfound]

5. Yeah! And if your spouse or your parent or your babysitter is dumb enough then too bad!

And if you have memory problems or brain fog or postpartum depression, too bad!
And if your own parent or your spouse dies or your other kid is having cancer surgery, and you're in a fugue because you've got too much on your mind, then too bad!
And if you figure out after you've had a kid for six months that you're incapable of being a good parent, then just give them back! Hit the undo button! It's easy!

[lostnfound]

7. That was obvious. Nt

[bathroommonkey76]

8. And so were the excuses you presented.

Personal responsibility has been thrown out to pasture in today's world. Remember the guy in Atlanta who left his son in the backseat of his van? Well, the little kid died and daddy got called out in court for sexting some woman he was talking to online-- The court eventually convicted him and his amnesia.

[lostnfound]

11. What's irresponsible about buying a devices to prevent a tragedy?

What bullshit and nonparents should generally stfu about parenting.

[Mariana]

9. You're entertained by stories of children dying?

What the fuck is wrong with you?

[bathroommonkey76]

10. Did I say that?

I'm entertained at people who throw out excuses to cover-up their lies. Children dying b/c of this nonsense is horrific to say the least.

[Occulus]

12. This app is being made to *prevent* these tragedies.

You obviously aren't the target market and won't be getting one. I'd think you'd be welcoming to anything that could prevent kids from needlessly dying.

Maybe you're not. In any case, let's not play the game of "if you're dumb enough to X you deserve/don't deserve Y." That's a large part of what's ripping our country apart and we need a lot less of it just now.

[angstlessk]

4. K&R for any parent who needs this...I remember I was supposed to drive my son to school

we got to talking, and his way to school was my way to my sales area....he ended up cavorting with me that day, so I can understand someone being absent minded.

[Occulus]

13. Many without kids don't get how distracted parents can be.

Especially new parents. I do get that, because my sister had three and she was frightened by the possibility of this very kind of thing. Nobody's perfect.

And she's responsible as hell, much more so then I am. But things happen.

Maybe this app will save a life. I'm glad someone's taking an approach involving something other than punishment after the fact...