People are busy, life can be confusing and even the most attentive, caring parents can temporarily forget about a child in the backseat or think they made that stop at the daycare when, in fact, they didn’t make the drop-off that day.
Several companies, including Volvo, as well as the auto parts suppliers Hyundai MOBIS, part of the Hyundai Group, and Continental, have developed radar-like systems that operate inside the vehicle to detect the presence of any living being, whether a pet or a person. Hyundai MOBIS’s system is already being offered in its models in the company’s home market of South Korea and could come to the US next year, the company said.