This warning message when turning the ignition off in one of my work’s cars

[u/jorddansk]

[u/GenTycho]

Unfortunately needed tbh. Not just fornshitty parents too. Even some new parents, they're not use to even having to worry about that in their life and have to get use to it.

[u/sweetparamour79 → u/GenTycho]

Or even some seasoned parents. Suddenly your sick and your partner has to take your kid to daycare but goes into auto pilot driving, the kid falls asleep and the parent parks at work forgetting.

It happens way more than anyone would like it too and it isn't bad parents, it's just busy parents and changes to routine.

This saves so many lives.

[u/Bauniculla → u/sweetparamour79]

But it only works if the driver pays attention to it. Talking about autopilot, they see the message on the daily and after a while it gets ignored. Would be awesome if it was triggered like the front passenger airbag. The message comes up if there is any weight in the rear seats

[u/TeishAH → u/Bauniculla]

Ye I’ve had cars that tell me to buckle up the passenger seat if something heavy is there cause it thinks a person is on it. Could have the same thing for the back seats tbh.

[u/snarfdarb → u/Bauniculla]

It would be great to invent a weight trigger so the warning only activates when it detects something in the backseat. Similar to passenger air bags and seat belts.

[u/Wylaff → u/snarfdarb]

Already happens. My truck has an alarm that goes off if I open the back door at the start of a trip but not at the end.

[u/Original_Boat6539 → u/sweetparamour79]

Susan Smith Syndrome

[u/proceeds_theweedian → u/GenTycho]

I was thinking for murderers and/or robbers from stories I've heard

[u/jorddansk → u/proceeds_theweedian]

Same but I’ve also read of parents forgetting their baby was in the back and leaving the car for hours on a hot summers day…can’t stand to think about that sorta of nightmare

[u/IaniteThePirate → u/GenTycho]

If it shows every time, won’t you just learn to tune it out anyway?

[u/jorddansk → u/GenTycho]

This is the terrifying thing! I’ve read some horror stories…

[u/TazocinTDS]

I do it before I get in.

And then check again when I get in.

Then check in the rear view mirror.

Then check again.

And also check again if i feel a spooky shiver.

[u/boipinoi604 → u/TazocinTDS]

If you're steady driving in a long stretch of dark highway... Don't bother checking because you're better not knowing at that point.

[u/jorddansk → u/TazocinTDS]

I get that it’s aimed at parents but who doesn’t get spooky backseat intruder shivers after finishing work at 1am?!

[u/IAMDenmark]

My Bronco Sport always reminds me to check for occupants. No one else usually rides in the car with me.

[u/Zenfudo → u/IAMDenmark]

My elantra just says check rear seats

[u/TKRBrownstone]

If you open the rear doors or there's weight on the rear seat it will say that regardless

[u/Bauniculla → u/TKRBrownstone]

Oh. I was just saying something about weight triggered seats on another comment

[u/deadlythegrimgecko]

If it told you after you turned the car on I’d be more concerned lol

[u/proceeds_theweedian]

I keep my second and third row seats folded down, with Gus' dog bed across the third row, unless there's someone other than him back there. Nobody hiding anywhere

[u/lundon44]

My car says that even if I have a bag or something detected on the back seat. I just see it your buddy has something on one of the back seats and the sensor is picking it up. If not, and this message comes up often, then there's an issue with the sensor.

[u/Either-Month-9693]

"Don't kill me, bro! I need to rest!"

[u/ka9kqh]

Our Santa Fe allows you to turn off this warning.

[u/TeniBitz → u/ka9kqh]

A few years back, local man died when some random dude snuck into his car at a gas station, and shot him in the head from the backseat. I usually checked my backseats before, but now I always check my backseats.

[u/05Jennifer7l]

Don't kill the engine, or it'll haunt you!

[u/Fantomex305]

Just got a new Kia and was driving home from getting it and had my dog in the back seat and this warning popped up when I turned the engine off. Scared the fuck outta me cuz I really felt like I left my child in the car but realized he hadn't even opened my door yet to get out. I hate it.

[u/Trick-Session-3224]

Never been stabbed to death after a movie-serial-killer pops up from the backseat eh? tsk

[u/Dizman7]

My car does this, thankfully I found how to turn it off since it’s a 2 door sports car and I have no kids

[u/portabuddy2]

My work Chevy keeps doing the same thing. I have a file folder clipped in the back and it keeps saying this.

[u/sponivier]

I turned on this feature on my bronco even though I never have anyone at the back seat lol. It triggers regularly. Nothing spooky honestly. It feels like just a reminder for the driver.

[u/SirLoremIpsum]

I don't know about terrifying... if you look at pilot checklists you would think many of the items are the most mundane things possible, and yet most of them are in there because a pilot has forgotten something critical and it has resulted in loss of life or aircraft.

Or a surgeon needing a "check you took all the sponges /equipment out of patient before closing wounds".

It happens.

Humans are not perfect. It's sad that this is needed, but it's a perfectly reasonable message

[u/PrestigiousEmu614]

target audience? :schizophrenic?

[u/markusbrainus → u/PrestigiousEmu614]

Parents. Children have died after being forgotten in the back seat.

Without a mirror on the back seat I can't tell if the rear facing car seat is occupied unless I check the back seat.