This one bites my arse. Jesus people just don’t leave your fucking kids in the fucking locked car! It’s not rocket science, it is basic safety. I’ve got 2 kids and never, not once have I left them in a locked car. If I don’t have time to get them out so they can come with me, I don’t have time to do the errand.
And don’t get me started on the fuckwits around here who drive around with kids out of carseats. Esp the fuckwits with the fucking seats who don’t fucking click the kid in. Do they believe in sympathetic magic or something?
Oh and a big hearty Fucking Moron to the all the roller blading kids doing it in the middle of the road at night. If and when I run you over, it will be your own fucking fault.
Um, not to rain on parades or anything, but might this air conditioner thing be a hoax?
On most cars I have looked at, the air conditioner compressor is driven by a belt to the main pulley on the car’s engine. The air conditoner will not function if the engine isn’t running. Therefore, the only way this thing could work is for the motion detector system to start the car first. So now you have a running car loaded with children. Strikes me as a BAD THING. Would it not make more sense for the motion detector to open the freaking windows?
Ok. let’s say that these cars come equipped with electric motor driven compressors. How long do you think that little car battery will be able to drive that compressor before conking out. Keep in mind that an air conditioner compressor puts a pretty heavy load on your car whenyou are driving. That battery will probably only last a few minutes.
I would like to see a cite on this motion detecting air condidtoner system, other than “I heard it on the news the other night…”
Yeah, man. Two kids here. It takes me about 2 seconds to determine whether or not I can walk away. The answer is, 99% of the time, NO. If it’s springtime, and neither cold nor hot, and I am a few steps ( LITERALLY ) from the car, yes. If I have to get out and walk 15 paces to pay for gas, yes. The doors are locked, engine is off. I am in full view of the car and kids at ALL times. Otherwise? If I’m so fucking lazy that I can’t take the kids out, as you say, I shouldn’t be running the errands.
I’ve screamed at people for this. I have ZERO problem rolling down my window and screaming, " PUT YOUR KID IN A SEAT BELT !!!". The drivers either look at me like I’M THE DANGEROUS ONE, or they flip me off. Yeah, fucko, flip me off. Ever seen a child who was forceably ejected out of a car window, hurled 75 feet and came into sudden rapid deceleration with the trunk of a tree? Fucking lazy dangerous asshole parents. THEY should lose their licenses. Period. They wanna be responsible for their own demise, goodie goodie, let them not wear belts. They want to be responsible for the demise of their kids who DEPEND UPON THEM FOR SAFETY AND SECURITY? Let em fuckin’ walk. I have zero respect, and zero tolerance for that shit.
And, on a less furious note, I can easily envision this scenario in this, our most litigious of societies:
Meryl Streep goes before Congress demanding that automatic air conditioners be installed in all cars.
Joe Montegna follows up, with Tim Roth and Warren Beatty in tow. A minor row ensues in the waiting room when Warren and Joe get into it over whose child is more precocious.The Capitol Police get involved. Meryl leaves in a huff.
Congress demands that the Lifesaving Automatic Motion- activated Environments (L.A.M.E.) be installed in all vehicles poste haste.
Detroit refuses to comply, until a single mother of 3 gets trapped in a Wal-Mart while buying her kid’s antibiotics and the kids all roast to death. Then, Detroit seizes upon the story, and moves fast. A year later, they’re in all new cars.
Phil Donohue comes out of retirement to share special honest heartfelt feelingful stories about real people who are just like you and me, trying to get through the day without par-boiling their offspring. " Stories of The Cool Kids" becomes the #1 syndicated talk show.
MTV starts production on their cutting-edge series, " Ice Boy" about a socially dysfunctional teenager who comes out of his shell by saving the lives of 4 pre-schoolers caught in a freak coolant accident in their Dad’s Volvo. He then goes on to become a member of the United States Senate.
6 soccer kids on their way back from practice all perish when Mom runs into Krogers to pick up some bratwurst. The air conditioner kicks on, but won’t kick off again. ALL 6 kids get nosebleeds brought on by severely dried out nasal cavities. The Mom is sentenced to 15 years for Involuntary Manslaughter, Abandonment, Endangering the Welfare of A Child. She gets an additional 25 years for Misuse Of An Air Conditioning System. ** “60 Minutes”** does an expose on her, and gets her sentence commuted. She becomes an associate producer for CBS News.
In the wake of the Nosebleed Six, as they are known, Congress leaps into action, passing emergency legislation banning the use of L.A.M.E. systems in all vehicles.
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I heard the same report that it would turn on the AC. Don’t know if this is just another case of the media getting things fucked up or not. Do know that within the next 10 years or so, the US auto industry is planning on switching cars over to (I think) 42 Volts. One of the reasons for this is so that the car can run the AC with the engine off (by using an AC unit driven off electrical power, rather than the engine it’s supposed to improve gas mileage by like .08 miles or some such), so what we may have is the automotive guys are planning to introduce the “chirping” model next year, followed by the AC version, once the cars convert over to 42 V.
I heard the same report that it would turn on the AC. Don’t know if this is just another case of the media getting things fucked up or not. Do know that within the next 10 years or so, the US auto industry is planning on switching cars over to (I think) 42 Volts. One of the reasons for this is so that the car can run the AC with the engine off (by using an AC unit driven off electrical power, rather than the engine it’s supposed to improve gas mileage by like .08 miles or some such), so what we may have is the automotive guys are planning to introduce the “chirping” model next year, followed by the AC version, once the cars convert over to 42 V.
did you notice how many calls there have been for a dingo cull since yesterday’s death? Let’s shoot the dingoes 'cos they acted like the wild animals they are in a wildlife preserve.
Maybe we should cull the crocodiles as a pre-emptive thing too - after all, at least one tourist this year is bound to be stupid enough to get eaten.
It makes the car chirp? For whose benefit? The parent, with keys in hand, who is inside the mini-mart, in aisle 6? Three beeps of the horn? That sounds like every other parent at the mall who is trying to pick their kids up from the Cineplex.
I think the designers of this project were clearly dropped on their heads as children.
HOPEFULLY, it would make a small remote chirp that was in the hands of the mom or dad who’d been FUCKING STUPID enough to leave their kids unattended in a car in the first place.
It could be voice chipped, to say, " Hi, your kids are now becoming diaphoretic, please return to your vehile, dickswab". Or, words to that effect
