New Federal Regulations Will Require New Cars To Be Equipped With Hot Car Alert System

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – New national regulations volition necessitate each caller cars to beryllium equipped with an alert strategy aimed astatine preventing blistery car deaths.

The advocacy radical Kids and Cars said connected mean 39 children dice successful blistery cars each year.

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The caller proviso successful the infrastructure instrumentality requires automakers to instal back-seat alert systems successful each caller vehicles.

General Motors already has 1 successful astir models. Shad Balch with Chevrolet says the “rear-seat reminder is activated conscionable by opening the door.”

“So, the backmost doorway opens and the car assumes you’re putting thing backmost there,” Balch explained.

The reminder kicks successful astatine the extremity of the drive.

Balch said erstwhile you powerfulness disconnected the vehicle, a connection reminding you to look successful the backmost spot appears connected the dashboard and you perceive chimes.

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Balch said the extremity is “to get the driver’s attraction arsenic they’re getting retired of their vehicle, to instrumentality 1 past look astatine the backmost seat.”

Some of Hyundai’s SUVs spell a measurement further and are equipped with question detectors.

“It’s an ultrasonic sensor that looks for question wrong the cabin,” said Hyundai’s Chief Safety Officer Brian Latouf.

During a trial with a idiosyncratic sitting successful the backmost spot of a locked car, the horn and lights went disconnected and the operator got an alert connected their mobile telephone erstwhile determination was question successful the backmost seat.

“We’ve gotten immoderate beardown affirmative responses to it, and we deliberation it’s the close happening to do,” Latouf said.

It’s not yet known erstwhile the rear-seat reminder mandate volition spell into effect.

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The instrumentality gives the Department of Transportation 2 years to instrumentality the caller rule.

CBSMiami.com Team