Technology Tuesday: New Gadget Could Prevent Kid Deaths in Hot Cars
During the brutally hot summer months, the interior of your car turns into an oven. As the temperature outside creeps closer to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, the inside of a vehicle left in the sun can reach as high as 170 degrees. Tragically, according to the non-profit child safety group Kids and Cars, 38 children die each year in the U.S. from heat stroke due to being left in hot vehicles.
Certainly, parents need to be more attentive, but technology can play a role, too. Three new inventions — The Hot Seat, Babeep and Precious Cargo app — could help save children’s lives by alerting parents if they’ve accidentally left their little ones behind. Here’s a quick breakdown.
Created by New Mexico teen Alissa Chavez, The Hot Seat is a small pad that parents place under their child’s car seat and a proximity sensor attached to a key fob. If a parent gets more than 40 feet away from their child’s seat, an alarm in the pad will go off to alert bystanders. At the same time, the key fob alarm will notify the parent.
If parents don’t have the key fob on them, an included app will also send an alert to their smartphones. Although she’s a high school senior now, Chavez came up with The Hot Seat idea as an eighth grader. Now, with patent in hand, Chavez is raising money for her invention on Indiegogo in the hope that she can save lives from unfortunate accidents.
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