re: There are bad days and terrible days; 2 year old dead after being left in a car

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This needs to be invented: a car seat with a sensor. The car seat senses when a child is in the car seat. There is an accompany sensor on the parent's key chain. When the sensor on the key ring is more than "X" number of feet away from the sensor on the child seat it beeps LOUDLY and vibrates as a reminder that the child is in the car. Seriously, does this not already exist???

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That's a good idea. I don't have kids but I read the autopilot story a long time ago and have been paranoid about that happening to me ever since. Everyone around here is talking about this news story, I just can't imagine how this mother feels right now. Had I not stayed on the frontage road today longer than normal, I wouldn't remember anything from my drive to work.

I wish the safety rules would change and that car seats would be proven safer to be forward facing in the backseat. This babies being left asleep and forgotten in the rear facing baby seats is becoming too common.