A car seat has been designed to prevent infant deaths occurring after parents accidentally leave their children inside hot cars.
The Evenflo Advanced SensorSafe baby seat was released on Thursday. It contains a wireless chip which sounds and alerts the driver if the car ignition is turned off but the baby’s chest clip is not unbuckled.
It is hoped that the innovation will help protect children against heat related deaths resulting from them being left inside sweltering cars by parents.
The seat retails on the Walmart website for $149.
Walmart is selling baby seats with sensors which alert parents when they leave a child behind
Sarah McKinney, Walmart’s director of corporate communications, told Yahoo! Parenting: “This car seat will eliminate the chance of a baby being forgotten in a car. Our hope is that no one would ever need the SensorSafe system, but the reality is that one child dies every nine days” from being left behind in a vehicle."
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