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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has no plans to require automakers to add in-vehicle technology that would alert parents who leave young children behind in hot cars.

NHTSA held an event outside Washington to highlight the risks to children of being left behind in cars — even as the number of reported deaths this year has fallen sharply — 11 — compared with 31 for all of 2014. NHTSA and other advocates think increased public awareness and several high-profile passersby alerting law enforcement may help explain the reduction.

NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind says it is important that parents and caregivers always make sure to check for their children. NHTSA recommends leaving something in the back seat like a wallet, briefcase or cellphone to ensure that parents check the back seat — or to leave a teddy bear in the front seat to remind them of the child in the backseat. “There’s no reason we can’t have technology backstops,” Rosekind told reporters after the event that featured a father who left his young daughter in a hot car who died of hyperthermia.



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