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Archive for July 31st, 2007

Sensor Technology to Save Children from Hot-Car Deaths

Tuesday, 31 July, 2007

We’ve written before about heat dangers to children in cars. The statistics are frightening:

From 1998 to 2006, 324 children have died in heat related accidents inside cars.
Regardless of the outside temperature, the interior temperature rises approximately 40 degrees an hour.
Eighty percent of the total heating occurs in the first half hour.
Children’s bodies do not regulate [...]