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Hot Car Fatalities Are Year-Round Threat to Children and Pets
Even on mild weather days, the temperature inside a closed vehicle can reach dangerous levels within an hour, posing major health risks to small children or pets left inside, Consumer Reports testing shows. Summer has officially ended, but parents and others still must be vigilant about the ongoing danger of hot cars.
FENNEL: Bravo for bipartisan support of HOT CARS Act
KidsAndCars.org is elated to announce that today the HOT CARS Act was advanced by the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee as part of the AV START Act (American Vision for Safer Transportation through Advancement of Revolutionary Technologies Act, S. 1885). The legislation will require technology be put in vehicles as standard equipment to help prevent children from dying of heatstroke in cars.
Hyundai’s New Rear-Seat Reminder Is Actually a Little Different from Nissan’s and GM’s
How many alerts do you need to remember that you’ve left your child in the back seat? Several, according to Hyundai, which is set to become the third automaker to install rear-occupant alert technology. But whereas similar systems in General Motors and Nissan vehicles monitor whether rear doors have been opened and closed, Hyundai’s new Rear Occupant Alert uses sensors that detect movement in the rear seat.
New Study Released on Nontraffic Injuries and Fatalities in Young Children
New Study Released on Nontraffic Injuries and Fatalities in Young ChildrenFirst of its kind study focuses on hidden threats to children in and around motor vehiclesPhiladelphia, PA – Over the last couple of decades, significant reductions in vehicle crash-related child fatalities have been attributed to advances in legislation, public safety campaigns and engineering. However, less is known about nontraffic injuries and fatalities (occurring primarily in driveways and parking lots) to children in and around motor vehicles.CO and Cars: Unfinished Business
In 1975, the auto industry began to equip vehicles with catalytic converters to meet the emission limits of the Clean Air Act of 1970. Sitting unobtrusively between the engine and the muffler, the “cat” changes the noxious gases in automobile exhaust into harmless nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water. The result, according to the National Institutes of Occupational Health, was an 80 percent decline in the number of unintentional vehicle-related deaths caused by the most dangerous byproduct of combustion engines: carbon monoxide.
