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

[TorchTheWitch]

91. BULL

It can happen to anyone that doesn't pay attention when they're behind the wheel. And like I said, if anyone operating a vehicle can remember their THINGS but not LIVING BEINGS in their car they're fucked in the head.

No possible way would I EVER forget my DOG in my car much less any other living passenger, and I already said why... because I'm ALWAYS acutely conscious about any living being in my car that when I'm driving I have responsibility for. Though there are times I might like to forget them, I CAN'T, and I CAN'T because of the grave responsibility I have when driving around any living being.

It's not at all like leaving your keys in the car or locking yourself out of the house. Keys are THINGS, and THINGS can be easily forgotten. LIVING BEINGS that are forgotten happens when the people with responsibility for their welfare stop being conscious of that fact. Leaving a living being in your car because you forgot they were there is like forgetting that your kid needs to eat or your dog needs to go outside to go to the bathroom. It is a shallow and wholely self-centered individual that needs that kid or that dog to remind them of their caregiver's responsibility to look out for their welfare.

Leaving your kid in the car because you forgot they were there is like going off to bed forgetting your kid is outside playing or in the bathtub, etc. But most people ARE conscious of where their kid or the dog is and their needs when not in the car because people have learned inappropriately that distracted driving is acceptable when it isn't and NEVER has been. Car manufacturers have more than helped this attitude along by making their cars full of things like GPS computers or cellphone chargers that give people the idea that it's perfectly ok to take your eyes off the road and fiddle with your GPS or yack on the phone, and now people are even texting on the phone while driving or using a laptop or pad.

Did you know that when car phones first came out people were constantly admonished to never talk on the phone while driving but to pull over to the side of the road and stop the car if they got a call or needed to call someone? That manufacturers made what was called "trunk phones" which were car phones meant to be kept in the trunk and only COULD be used by the driver stopping the car and going into the trunk for it so they wouldn't be talking while driving?

But once the cellphone came out that was small enough and cheap enough for the average person to have one all that safety stuff not only went away but car manufacturers just made it worse by including items in cars that shouldn't be used while driving because they're distracting.

Even old fashioned paper maps used to always be made in a huge size so that the driver HAD to pull over and stop to use one or have a passenger in the car use it so that the driver wouldn't be distracted by trying to follow map directions while driving.

Oh but now a days there's even GPS's that have a voice mode to tell you where to go so people get the impression that they don't need to think at all when they're driving. Before all this acceptance of distracted driving in recent history guess how many living beings were forgotten in cars? Practically none. Guess how many incidents of driving up over a sidewalk or crashing into a house or blowing through traffic lights by accident? Practically none. And those ones that did happen were more often than naught because of drunk driving or someone having fallen asleep at the wheel. And NO ONE made excuses for them that doing either was the least bit normal or acceptable.

But now distracted driving has become common even though people haven't changed other than society having taught them that being distracted or otherwise zombified while driving is a-ok. It's become so common that suddenly we even have obnoxious strobe-flickering red traffic lights for those people that are so fazed out while driving that they can't tell that there's a red light in front of them. Never mind that they cause headaches, vision problems and sometimes even seizures in many drivers, they're there because of there being so very much more distracted drivers that are so oblivious to a red traffic signal they now can't see it unless it strobe-flickers at them, too.

Even crosswalk and other signs aren't just bright glowing yellow anymore but now have a ring of similar vision problem and headache inducing flashing lights around them for the zombified driver to be made aware the sign is there. I've had to give up walking my dog down one particular street with one of these flashing crosswalk signs blinking and glaring away because neither me or the dog can stand the damn thing walking down the street in either direction, but the township decided these annoying blinking signs were needed for the distracted drivers oblivious to perfectly acceptable bright yellow traffic signs that are just as easily seen as they always were without the annoying blinking lights.

How is it that people don't forget their kids or their dogs when they're in the same room with them but DO forget them when they're in the car with them? Because distracted driving, not distracted living, is what has become acceptable. Anyone today that forgot their kid was in the same room with them so didn't remember to put them to bed before they went off to bed themselves or left the house entirely would be chastised as being a terrible parent, but suddenly we're supposed to believe that leaving that same kid in a hot car that will kill them in a slow and atrocious manner is just an unfortunate accident. BULL.

Anyone with kids that ride in the car should have a backseat mirror trained on what's in the back seat of the car if they're too distracted driving to remember to use the other mirrors already supplied to check the back seat. When my dog is in the car I constantly use the mirrors or even turn my head to look at how he's fairing for a seconds when stopped at a light and talk to him periodically to make sure he isn't scared or distracted by people or other dogs outside the car. Why aren't people doing this with their kids? Why is it that strapping a kid in a car seat is a good reason to forget to look out for what they're doing or how they're doing? And so much so that some people actually forget their presence in the car entirely? Because society has taught people that distracted or even zombified driving is just fine when it never used to be and when they would never forget their kid in the home or anywhere else.

A POX on this excuse making. All it does is absolve people of forgetting their responsibility to any living being passengers in their car and gives the nod to permit it to continue. People SHOULD be roundly chastised for forgetting about a living being in their car just as they would by forgetting about a living being in their home or their yard or any place else when they're the caregiver of that living being and responsible for their welfare.

Forgetting a living being is in your car that you're responsible for their well-being is just like forgetting your keys in the ignition??? That's CRAZY not to say dangerous excuse making. FUCK THAT.