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Many would consider their car as their home. Just like me. However, if someone in your family died inside that car you see as your home, would you still call it a home? Many things really happen when someone is caught dead inside a car and the most painful thing is if that person found dead is just a kid!

Among the common incidents that cause some children to die inside a vehicle is dehydration and hypothermia. This happens when a child stays in an enclosed vehicle without good ventilation during a hot summer day. Really, there is an increasing fatality rate of small children dying that way. That is the news!

With that seen on TV, a master electrician and technician of the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Minnesota named Mark Pelletier had decided to come up with a device that could save the lives of children caught in that kind of situation. He invented a cheap programmable circuit board that has sensors that could detect when a vehicle had reached a certain temperature. When that is detected, an alarm goes off.

That is also supported by the fact that a closed car’s temperature could go up quickly. A car under a 76-degree heat from the sun can heat up to a hundred degrees in just a span of half an hour! Add to that the fact that small children could easily suffer from dehydration five times faster than an adult or when their body’s internal temperature rises above 104 degrees.

With those facts, it is really necessary that a car has an alarm system like what Mr. Pelletier had designed. Since almost all children have no knowledge about what can happen to them, they may never have a chance to know that they are suffering from this. If lucky enough, a passerby could come and rescue a child inside a really hot vehicle. But what if there is no one around? It is still good that you always attend to your children. They are still not in the proper age to mind what situation they are in. So do the necessary things to be done. Continue calling that car your home.