On May 29, 2010, at 8:37 PM, Luiz Felipe wrote: > .Larry's own words... > .I certainly don't doubt that for the parent of the child, no price would be > to high to save the kid. But my complaint is with trying to equip every car > with that solution. .Should every person in the US pay a dollar to maybe save > half a dozen babies, when that same money could probably save hundreds if > spent elsewhere?
It's more than half a dozen. Seven already this year. The count will probably reach 40 in the US. Perhaps half that in Canada. Maybe three or four times that in Mexico. > . > .My inclination would be a bluetooth device that you could clip to the baby > seat, and a program that would run on your cell phone, or a dedicated device) > that would .alert when the sensor got out of range. Likewise, it could alert > if the temperature got too high, or too low. LIke Ken said, it won't happen without regulation. NASA has tried to get someone to license their device for a number of years now. The numbers aren't large enough to interest investors. I've never been a fan of mandated safety, but I think I can support this. > > Larry, I kind of agree on the math - not placing a value on life but wishing > to make more of the resources. But I suspect bringing the number of those > tragedies to zero over some time span would mean some financial savings as > well. I'd try it just for the life loss, but there is some money spent on > those cases that would be saved otherwise. I do suspect those > factory-installed devices would increase car prices by more than 10 dollars... > > Maybe between you and Ecke some chinese venture may be developed to market > those aftermarket devices. I'd probably buy one myself, to interface it into > the nano-itx videorecorder and mp3 player I'm trying to build. Ecke, if you > go for the movement generator there is a whole green effect - very > interesting these days. :-) > > Luiz Felipe > luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br > http://www.techmit.com.br/luizfelipe > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
