Car and Driver: The danger of keyless ignitions

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98. I knew a family of 5 that were all poisoned by carbon monoxide in a different kind of accident,

and it seemed like a catastrophic event to me.

One died and two children were permanently brain damaged.

GM fixed its affected cars for $5 per vehicle in 2015. The other manufacturers should have followed suit. Instead, they were resisting Federal legislation requiring software changes costing pennies per vehicle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/business/deadly-convenience-keyless-cars-and-their-carbon-monoxide-toll.html

Seven years ago, the world’s leading automotive standards group, the Society of Automotive Engineers, called for features like a series of beeps to alert drivers that cars were still running without the key fob in or near the car, and in some cases to shut the engine off automatically.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed a federal regulation based on that idea, a software change that it said could be accomplished for pennies per vehicle. In the face of auto industry opposition, the agency let the plan languish, though it says a rule is still under consideration.