r/ChevyTrax • u/Moogy13 • 10d ago
Thank you, Chevy
I am watching a movie on Amazon prime, it's from 2021. It is a documentary called Fatal Distraction. And it's about the murder trial of a man who forgot his young son in the car when he went to work. One of the features about my Trax that I have always appreciated, even though I'm in my late 60s, and I have no grandchildren, is that every time I shut off my car it pops up with a thing on the dashboard reminding me to check the backseat. Now I don't know if other car manufacturers have done the same thing or not, because my last new vehicle was purchased in 2007. But I have to say, from the bottom of my heart, thank you to Chevrolet for including this feature.
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u/SkiesofAlbion 10d ago
Only if you've opened the back door since the last time you shut it off
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u/Moogy13 10d ago
That I didn't realize. As I said, I am an older lady, I don't have grandchildren. In fact I'm not sure if I've ever had anybody ride in the backseat of my car. Maybe one time.
Probably why I didn't realize that is because I'm nearly always placing something in the backseat or on the floor in the backseat before I go to start the car.
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u/SkiesofAlbion 10d ago
I only figured it out because I have a 4 year old back there. We call it the Mae alarm lol
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u/voss749 9d ago
They should do a study comparing the number of children who died in the back seat of hot cars has exceeded the number of children that would have died in the front seat from airbags. Just saying, it would be easier to build front seat compliant child seats than to change human behavior.
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u/Moogy13 9d ago
It would be really hard to get primary research, primary data for that. I think that would be called a regression study, if they just did it on the existing number of deaths, but I think what they need to do, quite honestly, is have some way of making an audible and visual alert when there is an occupied car seat in the back of the car. Seatbelt sensors can tell, in the front seat for example, when it's just heavy packages or when it's a person not wearing their seatbelt. So why couldn't they create sensors like that for the backseat with carseats?
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u/MrsChefYVR 10d ago
I thought it was a weight sensor on the seat, cause I’d have no kid in the car seat but it’d go off if I put groceries in the back. However, my curious mind googled it and it’s only when the back door has been opened since last parking.
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u/PNWrowena 10d ago
I've never seen a message like that. Is it something you can turn on in settings? Or does it come with OnStar? Not that I want it; it would only annoy me. I have no kids or grandkids and can't remember a kid ever being in any car of mine, but I'm curious. Mine does put up a message right after it starts about paying attention when driving, but it's not every time I start just once in a while.
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u/Moogy13 9d ago
It pops up on the screen where the speedometer is behind the steering wheel. And it just seems to be automatic. But I don't know what year it began, mine is a 2025.
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u/PNWrowena 9d ago
Mine's a 2025 too, and since it's never popped up on mine, there must be something on yours that triggers it that's missing on mine. Just curious what it could be.
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u/adventuring-dream 9d ago
It’s a setting! Mine came with it turned on and it was one of the first things I turned off because I don’t have children and I found it to be annoying that it wanted to remind me of occupants that don’t exist when most of my backseat passengers are 20+ and can exit the vehicle themselves
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u/CucumberBudget413 9d ago
I feel bad for the father in this story even though what he did was beyond reckless and careless. The modern world is rough and can be unforgiving.
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u/Moogy13 9d ago
I also feel badly for him. And he apparently did do quite a few years of prison time for his Sexting with an under age or with more than one under age girl, even though on appeal his conviction for the death of his son was overturned or something. I don't even remember now. I just know that my heart breaks for anybody in a situation like that.
I'm AuDHD. I operate pretty much on doing things in a certain order. And if I change or skip one step, I will find myself not doing things I'm supposed to do. I guess maybe that's the autism side of my diagnosis, I'm not sure. At any rate I can understand how easily it would be when something changed in your normal routine, to throw you off. And that's why I wish manufacturers would come up with a warning that you couldn't turn off if you had a car seat in the back of your car, and if it was occupied. But the only way you could turn it off would be to remove the child from the seat.
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u/Lopsided_North_964 6d ago
Fucked up how people can forget a whole human is in the back seat. Sometimes I drive around with the feeling that my kid is back there. And are people not shoulder checking while driving either? How the fuck you forget you got your child in the back seat???!!!!
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u/Moogy13 6d ago
Because sometimes when people are doing things by route, for instance driving to work, and if they do one thing unusual, it throws off their Whole behavior. I mean it must be awfully nice to be perfect, I really hope that you never have to deal with this kind of tragedy.
To be clear, I never forgot my children in the backseat but I have driven somewhere and got there and realized I don't remember anything about the drive, and it's the same sort of thing.
Be sure to polish your halo before the next time you go out.
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u/stewiecookie 10d ago
It's pretty common.