The Government Has A ‘Solution’ For Parents Who Accidentally Leave Their Kids In Hot Cars

I’ve seen far too many stories about people accidentally leaving their children in the back of hot cars. I’ve even seen stories about parents loading their kid in the back of the car, forgetting to drop them off at daycare and going straight to work, leaving them in the car.

It’s scary and happens far too often.

People are trying to come up with solutions to prevent this from happening. I appreciate the creativity, but some of the ideas make me cringe. I heard one chick say something like, “Leave your cellphone and purse in the back seat with your kid. If you leave something important back there, you’ll be less likely to forget about your child!”

Um…what’s more important than YOUR CHILD? Come on people.

Lawmakers are on this. In fact, some people are pushing the HOT CARS Act.

“We’ve introduced the Hot Cars Act and it would require a reminder alert system in all new vehicles to prevent hot car deaths,” said Amber Rollins, director of the safety organization KidsAndCars.org. “It’s not a prescriptive bill, so it doesn’t call for any specific type of technology but it calls for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to take a look at what’s available and decide what the best solution would be.”

CNN incorporated climate change into this, because of course it did.

A car’s temperature can shoot up by 20 degrees in just 10 minutes and because of climate change, more days are expected to be hotter, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. A child’s body overheats faster than an adult’s and starts shutting down at 104 degrees Fahrenheit. Twenty-six children have died so far from heatstroke in 2018 alone, according to the US Department of Transportation.

Back to the subject at hand. Are we really at a point where we need legislation in order to help us not leave our kids in hot cars? Seriously?

Thank you @RepTimRyan, @janschakowsky & @RepPeteKing for sponsoring the HOT CARS Act (H.R. 2801). This commonsense legislation would address the tragic but solvable problem of hot car deaths by requiring cars to have alerts reminding drivers to #CheckForBaby

— Advocates (@SafeRoadsNow) July 31, 2018

I encourage my colleagues to join me as cosponsors of the HOT CARS Act and hope that we can move it forward and enshrine it into law as soon as possible. Children are dying preventable deaths – we cannot afford to wait. https://t.co/Fh3TrlcA46

— Jan Schakowsky (@janschakowsky) July 31, 2018

Do we REALLY need government involvement here?

OMG we live in the dumbest of times.

— Barbara Ansley (@BarbaraAnsley) August 1, 2018

What's sad is you have to remind someone they have a kid in the car.

— Lisa 🇺🇸♥️🌻 (@jhawk1986) August 1, 2018

Honestly, I think if you can't remember you have a kid in the car, you probably have a bigger underlying problem that needs to be dealt with.

— HAL9000 (@Barack8MyDog) August 1, 2018

I really don’t want a new government mandate. Just remember to check for your kids, and let the private sector deal with it. And don’t leave your dogs in a hot car either.

GAWD.

h/t Twitchy