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Toyota Plans to Deploy Automatic Engine Shut Off and Automatic Park Features to Vehicle Line Up
Starting with most Model Year 2020 vehicles, Toyota will provide additional features such as automatic engine shut off or “Auto Shut Off” with an enhanced audible and visual warning to its Smart Key System* (SKS). The Auto Shut Off feature will automatically shut off the engine after a pre-determined period of time in the event the vehicle is left running.
Toyota Has the Most Keyless Ignition Related Deaths, But Takes no Action
Last month, Dr. Sherry Hood Penney, 81, and Dr. James Livingston, 88, died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The couple had inadvertently left their keyless ignition 2017 Toyota Avalon running in the attached garage of their Sarasota condo. The car ran until it was out of gas and its battery died.
Toyota has the most keyless ignition carbon monoxide deaths. It had the first publicly acknowledged deaths and, now the most recent deaths. Yet, Toyota has done nothing to implement a simple, inexpensive software solution that some other major automakers introduced seven years ago.
Are keyless ignitions putting you at risk?
Could a convenient feature in new cars be putting you and your family at risk?This year, 91 percent of new cars will have a keyless ignition. The push button start is now responsible for more carbon monoxide deaths in Florida than anywhere else in America.
Pet cat credited with saving Deltona couple from carbon monoxide poisoning
A couple spent hours in their home being sicked by carbon monoxide after accidentally leaving their car running in the garage.
Paul and Leona Jones went out for an early dinner Wednesday evening and came home in the middle of a rainstorm.
They said they just wanted to get into the garage, close the door and get in the home.
"(We) just didn't hear the engine running and I didn't hit the button," Leona Jones said.
Blumenthal announces legislation to protect against CO and rollaway risk raised by keyless cars
On Friday, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) announced introduction of the Protecting Americans from the Risks of Keyless Ignition Technology (PARK IT) Act to protect consumers from the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning and vehicle rollaways associated with keyless ignition technology in vehicles. The PARK IT Act requires the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to finalize a rule that vehicles automatically shut off after a period of time to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning, and a rule that sets a performance standard to prevent rollaway.
