High-tech alarms go off when kids are left in hot cars

Welcome to Small Humans, an ongoing series at Mashable that looks at how to take care of – and deal with – the kids in your life. Because Dr. Spock is nice and all, but it’s 2019 and we have the entire internet to contend with.

It’s the summertime news story that’s become all too common – a parent leaves a young child behind in a hot car, leading to another tragic death. 

As of August 8, 29 children have died in 2019 from heat stroke inside a vehicle, including two New York City twins left by their father for eight hours as he worked on July 26. The National Safety Council, which tracks hot car deaths across the United States, reports than on average 38 children under 15 die each year of heatstroke related to being trapped in a hot car – whether due to caregiver error or a child climbing into a vehicle and being unable to escape. Read more...