Maya Hernandez, 20, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty
A one-year-old is dead after being left in a hot car for hours while his mother underwent a cosmetic procedure, police said.
Maya Hernandez, 20, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty after allegedly leaving her two sons, Amillio Gutierrez, 1, and his two-year-old brother, locked inside a parked car as temperatures soared to 101 degrees in Bakersfield, California on June 29.
While I understand the thought process behind this feature where the car shuts itself off after idling for “too long” the possibly deadly consequences make me question whether it should exist.
(To be clear, what she did was still incredibly stupid whether the feature existed or not and whether she knew about it or not)
There should not be deadly consequences because you shouldn’t be leaving any person or other animal unattended in a car for that long.
You’re right. Nobody reads a car’s manual cover-to-cover. Even if there was a way to disable this feature, she probably wouldn’t have known about it.
I hate how people are okay with people not reading the manual.
Sure, you’ve read the manual of every rental car you’ve ever used. K, buddy.
I’ve only ever rented two cars in my entire life and one of them was the same model as my wife’s. So yes… I have…
Well, that’s just cheating! Good one though.
Piss off dude. 99% of the time cars are all the fucken same it only gets problematic when some dipshit changes something for no reason that’s been the same since the 1970s.
Cars are in no way the same as they were in the 70s.
True. Cars consoles (here in the US) are non-standard in their layouts. I was one day surprised while riding as passenger in my sister’s new 2023 car that she didn’t know how to turn on the headlights. That was one scary day.