Self-Driving Cars Can Avert Hot-Car Deaths

Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Insider

Sadly, yet another hot-car death occurred recently, involving a man that left his 1-year-old twins in the backseat of his car while he went to work for the day, occurring in the sweltering heat of upstate New York.

Devastating.

Besides human deaths due to hot-car conditions, there are also pets that have either died or been injured due to being left alone in a parked car.

There are some people that knowingly leave a living entity in their car such as their pets and apparently don’t realize the dangers involved, and there are some people that mistakenly do so.

In the case of the man that left his twins inside the car, he has indicated that he forgot they were there, having assumed that he had dropped them off elsewhere already, and so mistakenly left them in the car.

How Hot-Cars Deaths Occur

There is actually a greenhouse effect that happens inside a locked car that has the windows rolled-up.

According to various charts, if the outside temp is 70 degrees Fahrenheit, a car can readily increase the internal temperature by about 20 degrees in 10 minutes. Thus, the internal temp is now 90 degrees.