Den 31. mai 2010 kl. 06.11 skrev Rob Studdert: > On 31/05/2010, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: >> These kids aren't that old. It was a late model car with the >> brake/shift interlock installed. >> Kids are resourceful! > > Again I wonder how much of the fault is the parents? My little guy > loves to sit in the front seat playing driver, but he's got absolutely > no idea that the interlock is there let alone how it works and until > he learns to drive I'm not going to tell him.
I managed to drive my parents cars over our neighbors lawn when I was 5. That taught them to lock the car and take the keys :-) But there is another side of this discussion and that is the question whether parents would get less careful because of the added security. Will you trust the sensors in your car and leave the child unattended more often if you instal a sensor warning about temperature? Then you increase other risks. I think that may be the case and in Norway they recently published a report stating that more pedestrian were hit by cars at the zebra crossings. It turns out that they think they are safe because they use the crossing and the rules say that the cars have to stop, but they don´t think about the braking distance of the cars. They don´t even look for the cars, just walk. DagT -- 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.
