How does one even get out of a running car without hearing the engine? Maybe these thirteen who died were deaf or hard of hearing?
It may be a problem if one is intoxicated. Common sense makes sense but not to the lawsuiters out there.
They have a thing that looks like a key, and a place in the car to put the key, then you use a button to start the car?
And they didn’t expect people to forget to push to stop button? First of all, if you pull out the key, then after XX years of driving, you expect the car to turn itself off. Secondly, everything in the world has an automatic cut-off.
Of course people will not remember to push a button to turn the car off!!!
And if only to protect themselves, the makers of those cars should have them in case someone ****dies**** for lack of one!!!!!!!! Sheesh!
My old car wouldn’t shut off unless you tuned the key to the off position. Very dangerous.
Reminds me of the urban myth, back in the 1970s.
A wealthy Arab visitor to the US rents a tricked out full size (that’s all they sold then) Econoline van.
He puts puts the van on cruise control on the interdate and gets up from his captain chair to go in the back. He perishes in the ensuing crash.
When I grew up almost A:: cars had a start button...ON THE FLOOR! I installed a start button in almost all vehicles I’ve had since my new 1967 Mustang. Even the minivans mrs p6 and I had in the 80’s - 90’s had them.
I tried putting one in our 1998 Durango but didn’t realize the new...I say stupid...anti theft stuff realized the system had been tampered with and I had to take the truck to the dealer to have the entire system reset!
I think I’ll build my own dang car!I
It’s very difficult to get CO poisoning from any relatively modern car, though.
So the story doesn’t make much sense.
Any car with a working CAT has over 99% of the CO removed from the exhaust by the CAT.
Even a car built in 1985, with a working CAT, puts out very little CO.
The direct cause of these deaths is driver stupidity.
Another lawsuit blaming a manufacturer for a user’s stupidity.
To add a little humor to this discussion: I grew up in a small Michigan town where there was a couple who won the Michigan lottery. Of course, they bought a big fancy car and the husband soon turned into a drunk.
One night he came home, drove into his garage, shut the garage door and fell asleep in his car. The wife, from inside the home, used a remote to start the car, which soon filled the garage with carbon monoxide.
Obviously he croaked, and the wife eventually confessed and went to jail.
Creative and funny, and she probably would never have been caught!
It is very easy to step out of a running car with the push button start/stop. All of our cars have that and I have stepped out several times without stopping the engine. The cars are smooth running and quiet enough that I don’t notice them running at all.