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> You can choose a soothing music play list in the car and it automatically resumes in the next ride Oh wow! There is a non zero chance that was implemented be

• ssl-3 2y ago
  Man. My daughter's head would sometimes detach from her body and fly around the room by itself. Strapping her down in a car seat and taking her for a drive usually rectified the situation. I look forward to a future where this process can become more automated. (/s, sorta)
  • KennyBlanken 2y ago
    It is automated. Has been for many decades. Hit up ebay and search for "swyngomatic." There are ones that are spring-powered and more modern ones use a couple of d-cells (or a wall wart if you're enterprising.) That and a white noise machine (set it low, their ear canals are very straight so they're sensitive to noise, although babies get used to noise around them given time and sleep through it, which is more practical / useful. You can also just do what people have done for tens of thousands of years: wrap your kid against your body and go about your business. Putting your kid in a car (self driving or not) is putting them in the most dangerous situation they could possibly be in - car crashes are the number one cause of death for kids (in the US.)
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    • willcipriano 2y ago
      > Putting your kid in a car (self driving or not) is putting them in the most dangerous situation they could possibly be in - car crashes are the number one cause of death for kids (in the US.) It would follow that since no children die each year playing in active volcanos that's the safest thing they could possibly do. Kindergartens should be filled with magma.
      • wdh505 2y ago
        Serious preventable accidents happen at 60+ MPH. Generally a slow 20-45 mph (35 mph average) drive around the neighborhood is much safer as there are almost no "serious" accidents. Source: an organization with a fleet installed some driver tracking gps's and looked at the data over a year or two.
        • badpun 2y ago
          Those stats are probably very different for babies, who are more fragile and could get seriously hurt even at lower speeds.
          • throwaway7ahgb 2y ago
            Where are the stats on infant motor deaths where the baby is secured correctly and car speed is <= 40mph?
            • hedora 2y ago
              Most car seats are improperly installed. If you have one, get its installation checked by a professional. In the SF Bay Area, you can have CHP check it for free. The full-time job of the officer that checked ours is investigating accidents where kids in car seats died. Almost all the child fatalities around here are due to improper car seat installation. We had it dangerously wrong. Before the appointment, I read the manual twice and spent something like 60 minutes installing it. The seat used the latch system with a top anchor, it was a new car and we had a top-ranked car seat. All the straps were connected up correctly. During installation, I sat on it with all of my weight, pushed against the ceiling of the car with my back, pulled the tightening strap until it felt like it'd break, and then pulled harder. The straps were still too loose. I'm not small. Our last car seat had a failure mode where one of the latch straps would just self-release every 1000 miles or so. I'm not sure if it was user error or not. It happened twice. After that experience, I think part of the certification process for car seats and cars should involve proving that the majority of people that have never installed a car seat (i.e., first time parents) can get it right on the first try without reading the manual. The test group should include people with physical impairments, and should include at least a dozen popular car models going back a decade. (Car certification should be the same, but with multiple car seat models.)
    • bluejekyll 2y ago
      Something every new parent should learn (which some parts of car rides mimic), learn about the 4th trimester. Then learn the 5 S’s to mimic the womb: Swaddle - wrap the baby Side/stomache - position like the womb Shush - white noise Sway/swing - walking or bouncing Suck - a finger, a sucker, etc These were a life saver for my son. Most nights it was just swaddle + sway, on bad nights it took all 5. I think the reason cars work for so many baby’s is that car seats, the rhythm, the white noise from the car, etc… these all do the same thing.
      • pc86 2y ago
        Our first is just out of this period and it really was pretty rough. It look us a month or so to come across the 5 S's and it made a world of difference. We also somehow got very very lucky in that he didn't need to be transitioned out of the swaddle, he just grew to dislike it so one night we just stopped cold turkey and it was fine. We've had friends that have had to do the one arm in / one arm out, swaddle the legs, etc. and transition over days or weeks to get any sleep at all.
        • bluejekyll 2y ago
          My son would always wriggle around until his hands were up next to his face (this is like 11 years ago). I started swaddling him in that position. We had an ultrasound picture that showed his hand in a similar position, so I guess it carried over.
          • pc86 2y ago
            Same, almost all his US pictures show him with hands next to his face and he sleeps like that most of the time now too.
      • _zoltan_ 2y ago
        I disagree about giving them anything to suck on for the night. IIRC there's even research that could lead to late speech or trouble with speech later on.
  • unshavedyak 2y ago
    My father said the same for me. To this day, sleeping in the car is the easiest sleep i get. It's so soothing. Which is problematic considering i'm the sole driver for my household hah.
    • huppeldepup 2y ago
      Has anyone ever attempted putting a bed on actuators to emulate a driving vehicle?
      • toast0 2y ago
        I swear I've seen a thing for a car seat... But not for an adult.
      • gfna 2y ago
        Ford even did an ad campaign around this concept some years ago https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2017/04/06/clever-cot-simulates-car-journeys-so-baby-can-get-to-sleep-at-ho.html https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2017...
      • throwaway7ahgb 2y ago
        There are many cribs that do this, here is the top of the line: $1000+ : SNOO
      • czl 2y ago
        Many car seats are removable and have carry handles so it is possible to hang them and have them moving like a pendulum also spinning. For safety use a strong strap (like for a hammock) and hang just an inch or few cm or so above the ground and make sure what it is hanging from can not topple or come crashing down.
  • sheepscreek 2y ago
    > Man. My daughter's head would sometimes detach from her body and fly around the room by itself. Is this satire, or am I missing something (going by the serious replies)? Not sure I would ever use this phrasing to describe anything serious - much less about my own child.
    • throwaway7ahgb 2y ago
      Search "Why is my baby crying bloody murder" aka witching hour. If you've never experienced this, you are very lucky.
      • sheepscreek 2y ago
        Ah, thanks - So satire it is. Thank goodness my kid didn’t scream like that as a baby. Although we’ve had our own share of unusual challenges - she was/is a loud crier and could go on for 20-40 mins in the middle of the night. Not murder screams but still loud enough that my Apple Watch would warn me of prolonged exposure to loud noise :-/
    • ssl-3 2y ago
      I mean: That part was of course satire. It's not like her head literally detached and flew around the room by itself: She was a real, human little kid (and a pretty awesome one at that), not something from some horror film full of practical effects and CGI, with disembodied heads flying around and screaming tirelessly like their very essence is being destroyed. But it sure did feel like that was happening every now and then, despite our very best efforts and resources. And sometimes, something like a trip to the store ("HEY, DO WE NEED MORE EGGS AND MILK FOR TOMORROW?" "YOU KNOW WHAT? I THINK WE DO NEED MORE EGGS AND MILK FOR TOMORROW!" "OK! LET'S TAKE THE KID AND GO TO THE STORE!") was the the only thing that allowed for a return of sanity for anyone involved. It was not the first option. We always employed all positive options first and had good support for finding new methods; we really did do pretty-OK at that time as non-robotic human parents, I think. Going for a short drive was the last option before "Let her scream. It's hard work to make that much noise and she'll tire out eventually, and fall asleep [0]" would come into play after everything else has already failed. [0]: We once got this advice from her doctor as a last-resort option. And maybe that was good advice or maybe that was terrible advice, but it was absolutely untenable advice for us when we were living in a stick-framed apartment building: Letting a kid scream like that for a prolonged period with a multiplicity of neighbors on the other sides of the walls is an easy road towards getting the police, CPS, and/or building management involved through no particular fault or misdeed of our own. And as a practical matter, when third parties become involved like that, now there are at least two problems (at least one of which is now an ongoing major problem) instead of just one relatively minor problem of a clearly-tired little human who chooses to scream instead of sleep. I'm very glad that you never had the opportunity to experience this kind of thing. It's awful, and if it were easy to resolve I wouldn't have any of this to write about.
• thepasswordis 2y ago
  It’s been that way for several years.
  • fhub 2y ago
    Happy to be corrected. Zero chance it was implemented due to my feedback.
    • throwaway8481 2y ago
      I believe in you.
  • tialaramex 2y ago
    This also just makes sense when you conceive these taxis not as "Some other person's car" (as they would be with Uber, or with a conventional private hire service) but as interchangeable units. Of course they should all share state and so it makes sense that resuming the music carries on from where it left off.
    • nazka 2y ago
      Ya I think it does. But tell that to any C level after sometime a company grow… They will look at you wondering which weird idea you talking about. Maybe it’s the Silicon Valley but it’s cool they still care about details like this.
  • thebruce87m 2y ago
    Several years is many months
• jliptzin 2y ago
  You should patent the idea, and then sue anyone who independently comes up with it.
• canadianfella 2y ago
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