Why doesn’t this tech exist?

[Cap]

A thread for tech that seems like it ought to exist, but doesn’t.

If you live in the Valley, you know about sunshades. Those accordion-foldable pieces of cardboard or plastic or vinyl or whatever that you use to cover your windshield so that it’s merely painful to get back in your car after two hours instead of impossible. Putting it on when you park, then putting it away when you go, is a pain in the neck.

Why isn’t that a push-button feature in modern cars? The user wouldn’t even have to be bothered with a button; you could have an automatic mode where it covers your windshield when the car is in park and there’s no weight on the seats. You could even do the other windows too.

Seems both useful and easy to implement. Why isn’t it common?

[Superbone]

A thread for tech that seems like it ought to exist, but doesn’t.

If you live in the Valley, you know about sunshades. Those accordion-foldable pieces of cardboard or plastic or vinyl or whatever that you use to cover your windshield so that it’s merely painful to get back in your car after two hours instead of impossible. Putting it on when you park, then putting it away when you go, is a pain in the neck.

Why isn’t that a push-button feature in modern cars? The user wouldn’t even have to be bothered with a button; you could have an automatic mode where it covers your windshield when the car is in park and there’s no weight on the seats. You could even do the other windows too.

Seems both useful and easy to implement. Why isn’t it common?

Invent it and you will be rich beyond your imagination.

[Cap]

How about one that does exist but isn’t common like it seems it ought to be: Bluetooth baby seats. You move away from the seat with weight still in it, your phone alerts you that you may be forgetting something. Forgotten babies dying in cars should not still be a thing in 2025. The tech to prevent it should be not only ubiquitous, but mandatory.

[Kryptonic]

How about one that does exist but isn’t common like it seems it ought to be: Bluetooth baby seats. You move away from the seat with weight still in it, your phone alerts you that you may be forgetting something. Forgotten babies dying in cars should not still be a thing in 2025. The tech to prevent it should be not only ubiquitous, but mandatory.

Better yet, a test to see if people should be parents.

[Cap]

How about one that does exist but isn’t common like it seems it ought to be: Bluetooth baby seats. You move away from the seat with weight still in it, your phone alerts you that you may be forgetting something. Forgotten babies dying in cars should not still be a thing in 2025. The tech to prevent it should be not only ubiquitous, but mandatory.

Better yet, a test to see if people should be parents.

I don’t want to tell anyone whether they should or shouldn’t be parents, I just want to prevent preventable tragedies. Better to save lives than to demand their parents not create the lives in the first place.

[Superbone]

How about one that does exist but isn’t common like it seems it ought to be: Bluetooth baby seats. You move away from the seat with weight still in it, your phone alerts you that you may be forgetting something. Forgotten babies dying in cars should not still be a thing in 2025. The tech to prevent it should be not only ubiquitous, but mandatory.

Better yet, a test to see if people should be parents.

I don’t want to tell anyone whether they should or shouldn’t be parents, I just want to prevent preventable tragedies. Better to save lives than to demand their parents not create the lives in the first place.

Whether they should or shouldn't, you can't prevent them from having sex and producing one. Unless we go Big Brother on them.

[Cap]

How about one that does exist but isn’t common like it seems it ought to be: Bluetooth baby seats. You move away from the seat with weight still in it, your phone alerts you that you may be forgetting something. Forgotten babies dying in cars should not still be a thing in 2025. The tech to prevent it should be not only ubiquitous, but mandatory.

Better yet, a test to see if people should be parents.

I don’t want to tell anyone whether they should or shouldn’t be parents, I just want to prevent preventable tragedies. Better to save lives than to demand their parents not create the lives in the first place.

Whether they should or shouldn't, you can't prevent them from having sex and producing one. Unless we go Big Brother on them.

You mean go CCP on them?

[Mori Chu]

My wife bought a bunch of these Apple "air tags" and we put them in everything from car key rings to our dogs' collars. They're great; we can find anything from our computer or phone. I think we should be putting these or similar tech on our kids. The idea of your kid wandering off and getting lost, or god forbid getting abducted or something, should be a relic of the past.

[Cap]

If you want to track an abducted child whose clothes may be changed, you kind of have to insert the tag in a body cavity.

[Superbone]

If you want to track an abducted child whose clothes may be changed, you kind of have to insert the tag in a body cavity.

We do it with dogs. Why not kids?

[Cap]

If you want to track an abducted child whose clothes may be changed, you kind of have to insert the tag in a body cavity.

We do it with dogs. Why not kids?

Let’s put microchips in all the kids and then start a rumor about how one day we’re going to flip a switch and turn them into a zombie army. And we can make fun of the people who believe it. Then flip the switch.

[Kryptonic]

If you want to track an abducted child whose clothes may be changed, you kind of have to insert the tag in a body cavity.

We do it with dogs. Why not kids?

Let’s put microchips in all the kids and then start a rumor about how one day we’re going to flip a switch and turn them into a zombie army. And we can make fun of the people who believe it. Then flip the switch.

You mean like the cell phones we carry?