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The ratio to study is not how many deaths per vehicles, but cost-of-implemenation per vehicle vs deaths. The article mentions that the feature can be implemente
by intopieces 8y ago
The ratio to study is not how many deaths per vehicles, but cost-of-implemenation per vehicle vs deaths. The article mentions that the feature can be implemented "for pennies per vehicle." If you could save 1 person's father for $.01 per car, why not?
- IshKebab 8y agoYou could surely prevent this purely in software. The car knows that is hasn't moved, nobody is sitting in the driver's seat and nobody has touched any controls for 10 minutes. Surely it can switch itself off?
- kss238 8y agoSo what happens in winter when I go turn my car on thirty minutes before I leave to make sure it's nice and warm?
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoCould be a special switch on the fob for that. Could beep every five minutes to remind you. Lots of ways to handle it that would save lives at the cost of only minimal inconvenience.
- kss238 8y agoHow is beeping every five minutes any different than what cars do currently? Cars with push to start are already required to beep when the key is taken out of the car. If you add a special switch, that increases costs. Why should car buyers bear extra expenses for less than 100 deaths a year? Should we require special bathtub sensors that beep when they detects still water because hundreds of people drown in bathtubs each year?
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago> How is beeping every five minutes any different than what cars do currently? Would've saved this guy's life. That's different. > If you add a special switch, that increases costs. Why should car buyers bear extra expenses for less than 100 deaths a year? How much do you think a switch costs? If you told me that, for less than a dollar, I could save 50 lives, I'd do it in an instant. It's weird to me that you wouldn't.
- IshKebab 8y ago30 minutes seems a little extreme. I guess it would sensibly turn itself off. If you really want that you could have a special "warming" mode.
- Dylan16807 8y agoThe pennies per vehicle line confuses me, honestly. Building it in to a car should cost zero cents, since it's just a config change, and apparently a retrofit is in the realm of $5. Where do pennies come in?
- intopieces 8y agoA config changes requires someone to design the configuration, right? That's at least x hours of coding, testing, and final validation. Nothing is 'free'.
- Dylan16807 8y agoConfig A takes coding, testing, and validation. Config B also takes coding, testing, and validation. Neither one costs more than the alternative.