"Never forget your kids in the car again". We were just talking about this a couple weeks ago,

[Hortensis]

5. Yes. My worry that springs to mind was children behind the car

as I backed down the driveway. Our neighborhood was carved into the side of a mountain with small yards and was full of children who often played in the streets and ran around to each others' houses.

But that was a real, sensible fear. As you indicate, it's important to keep perspective. In a nation of 330,000,000 people, that these few tragic deaths occur every summer does not mean this is a problem most need to fear. Almost all parents have a built-in anxiety regarding their children that imposes a relative hypervigilence where they are concerned.

Now, pets might well be a different matter. But my guess that the anxious parents who would purchase this are not among those at all likely to stand forgetfully chatting at the bakery counter for 20 minutes anyway. Except where, again, surrogate caretakers are involved. At the moment I'm remembering adolescent siblings in particular...!