Brainmangling!

[elfs]

This morning, while driving to work, I turned on the radio. It was tuned to NPR, and the first sentence out of the speakers was "Power windows are known to have killed 37 children in the past ten years."

My first thought was "Wow, I knew it wasn't considered one of Rush's better albums, but I didn't think it was that bad."

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Re: Who

[(Anonymous)]

Automatic electric car windows (aka power windows) can kill like this:
Child left in car for a few mins with the window open.
Child sticks head out of window, and accidentally hits the up button.
Window closes and strangles child.

In the UK automatic windows in new cars only work downwards in auto mode. You have to keep the button pressed to close.

It's nowhere near a big a deal as many other dangers, but it is an entirely avoidable one at very little cost.