Nissan adds safety features hoping to prevent child hot car deaths
Carmakers are coming up with solutions to prevent child deaths in hot cars. Nissan “rear door alert” technology could be lifesaving for a child and it’s the warning sound that is now the standard equipment on 10 of its 2019 models, ABC 7 in New York reports.
According to ABC 7, the company plans to have rear door alert standard on its four-door models by 2022.
A mother of two and program manager at Nissan stated to ABC 7 News, ” We wanted to make sure we had two levels to alert the driver,” Elsa Foley said.
ABC 7 states the rear door alert switches in the rear door prior to and after the trip. If you opened that rear door and put your child inside, at the end of the trip you will first be shown in a warning in the center dash that says “Check Rear Seat doe All Articles.”
Foley said, “If you forget or don’t see that message and you get out of the vehicle, if you don’t go back and open close the rear doors, then the horn honks. It’s a very distinct horn chirp that gives your attention back to the car, says ‘Hey, maybe you forgot something.”
ABC 7 reports 22 children nationwide have died from heatstroke in cars since the start of 2019 and two of the latest to die were one-year-old twins discovered in the Bronx on Friday after their father went to work and left the children in the car for eight hours.
