Why do an internet search about infants dying in hot cars because you are so afraid of it happening?

[TorchTheWitch]

76. it's sick that anyone would remember their purse or their briefcase

or their coat or their laptop or anything else and NOT remember their own kid! None of these things is more important than a living being. If you are so distracted or self-absorbed or tired that you can forget any living being is in the car than you shouldn't be allowed to drive at all. PERIOD.

Distracted driving has become the norm in this country. Whether it's forgetting WHO is in the car or using computers or cellphones all of that has become normal while driving in this society and it's been causing accidents and deaths like crazy. NO, you can't text or talk on the phone or play with your GPS or whatever mind using widget in your car and still be attentive to what's going on in your car and what's going on on the road. Driving means having your FULL attention on safely operating the car and avoiding other dangers on the road. It's not for doing other things or daydreaming or falling asleep or into some other fugue state. A car is a dangerous weapon that requires attentive operation.

I'm sick to death of people saying that anyone could forget a LIVING BEING in their car as though it's a normal thing. Bullshit. It's not normal despite having become average. Hell, even when I'm at work there's still a part of my mind attached to my dog at home, and throughout my shift there are many times that my mind is entirely on him if only for a moment wondering if he misses me or what he's doing and my missing him. There's no way on earth I could possible forget he was in the car with me when I know I put him in there.

And maybe that's because I never drive distracted or tired or daydreaming or doing anything else that could take my mind off driving safely for my own benefit, everyone else on the road and WHOEVER is in the car with me. Whenever you drive you're responsible for any passengers in the car human or otherwise. How the hell does anyone so forget that responsibility that they leave a living being in the car alone to BAKE to death??? And even worse, how does one remember their coat or their purse or their briefcase, etc. and FORGET a LIVING BEING that as the driver they have responsibility for their safety? Anyone that can remember their THINGS and FORGET a living being in the car they have responsibility for has no business having any responsibility for any living being while driving or otherwise.