United States Department of Transportation
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Testing Rear-Door-Logic Based Unattended Child Reminder Systems
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2024-12-01
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Abstract:From 1998 to 2023 there were 971 reported deaths in the United States due to pediatric vehicular heatstroke (PVH), an average of 37 PVH deaths per year. Unattended child reminder systems (UCRS), also known as child presence detection (CPD) systems, use direct sensing methods to detect or indirect sensing methods to infer the presence of a child inside a vehicle. If a child is detected or inferred, the UCRS provides an alert and may also include interventions that could reduce the risk to a child who has been left unattended knowingly or unknowingly. The most common types of UCRS in production in 2023 are indirect sensing systems that identify a rear door opening to infer the potential presence of a child. This study analyzes 12 vehicles that use rear-door-logic based systems to alert drivers to children forgotten in the rear seats at the end of journeys through comparisons with UCRS alert recommendations.
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