[byoung2]

My car detects an attached carseat and flashes a warning when the car is turned off: please check back seat. More cars should have this warning

[snypher]

Please, no more ding ding. You have a backpack on your passenger seat, ding ding, passenger seat belt alert. You're driving at 5mph on private roads, ding ding, driver seatbelt alert. Your TPMS hasn't worked for 3 years, ding ding, 'service tire pressure system'.

Please let the user decide how they want to use the vehicle instead of a one-size-fits-most model. Also, please give me the option to add a baby seat monitor - if I want one!

[adambatkin]

My car beeps occasionally, but it certainly doesn't rise to the level you describe. Some of them represent real safety issues, even if you don't think they do in that moment. For example, my TPMS has saved alerted me to low tire pressure when I didn't know I had a leak, and the fact that it beeps a couple times every time I start the car is both helpful ("oh right, I need to get that fixed soon") and far from annoying.

Accidentally leaving a kid locked in a car on a hot Summer day is beyond horrific. How many kids should die before we think the annoyance of an extra beep would be worth it?

[mango7283]

I'd bet plenty of parents of given the option will not turn it on because "oh this will not happen to me, unlike those other neglectful parents"

[toomuchtodo]

It is entirely possible to make this user configurable with existing vehicle sensors.

[bombcar]

The problem is it ALWAYS dings (the car seat is always there or it detects door openings) and so it just gets ignored along with the fifty other billion warnings it gives.

Which is insane because it obviously has much more intelligent sensors - if I try to lock the doors with the windows down and the wind blowing it screams bloody murder and refuses to lock because it detects motion. Windows up and someone moving? Same thing.

But it doesn’t beep based on that.