I forgot to turn off my car overnight.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're afraid of this happening again, park outside on your driveway or on the street. Yes it's a pain to have to carry sleeping kids inside and yes you're risking your car being stolen, but it's still way way safer for you.

This. But if you are going to park in your garage I would put a sign on the door, and maybe even an alarm on your phone before bedtime to check.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're afraid of this happening again, park outside on your driveway or on the street. Yes it's a pain to have to carry sleeping kids inside and yes you're risking your car being stolen, but it's still way way safer for you.

This. But if you are going to park in your garage I would put a sign on the door, and maybe even an alarm on your phone before bedtime to check.

Problem with a sign is that for most people, they'll stop reading it and it'll blend into the surroundings in a few days/week. I mean if you have pictures or paintings in your home, do you even notice that they're up anymore?

A phone alarm isn't a bad idea. Or -- do you have a night time routine re your house -- check the front door lock; back door lock; turn off exterior/interior lights etc. If you do, I'd add to that -- open the door to your garage and look at the car and make sure it's off. When it becomes part of a rote routine, it's more likely to get done.

But for right now, if I was OP -- I'd be scared enough to want to park outside at least for a while.

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Anonymous wrote:Read the OP, people. It's a KEYLESS car. Leaving a car running has become a huge problem with keyless cars. A keyfob is required to start the car, but there is no key and it is not required to keep the car running. So, you and your keyfob can go into the house, but if you don't push that stop button in the car, the car stays running until it's out of gas. The NTSB has begged automakers to change the way this works because people have died by forgetting to turn their cars off in the garage.

Yup. http://abcnews.go.com/US/abc-news-investigation-potential-risk-keyless-ignitions/story?id=34161887

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OMG. You almost killed your entire family.

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Omg. I have a keyless and I regularly forget to turn off the car.
Between radios, kids seatbelts, car doors, etc there are so many buttons to press. Some get forgotten.
I can absolutely see how the OP could do this.
You really don't know until you drive one of these cars.

And why oh why is there NOT a feature that automatically turns off the engine after awhile, with no keys present? A major flaw in the production.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg. I have a keyless and I regularly forget to turn off the car.
Between radios, kids seatbelts, car doors, etc there are so many buttons to press. Some get forgotten.
I can absolutely see how the OP could do this.
You really don't know until you drive one of these cars.

And why oh why is there NOT a feature that automatically turns off the engine after awhile, with no keys present? A major flaw in the production.

Bc that kind of feature could malfunction and turn the car off in the middle of a highway.

[Anonymous]

I just can't imagine leaving a car running in a closed garage.

Op, if you really think that you could do this again - I agree with those saying that you should park on the street or in the driveway.

You are very, very lucky that this did not turn into a tragedy for your family. How scary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is extremely serious in a garage. I knew a man who died in a townhouse because he left his car on and the carbon monoxide came into the townhouse and killed him in his sleep. Open all your windows.

Nightmarish. His neighbors are lucky that he didn't kill them too.

[Anonymous]

Is it a Chevy Volt? If so, bring it in for a software update -- they did a voluntary recall last year to update the software, so the engine won't turn on (to charge the battery) in situations like this... precsiely because of CO2 poisoning risk in a garage.

[Anonymous]

We have a car with keyless ignition but I just use the key as normal so I don't have to worry about this.

[Anonymous]

Is this because you have a push button car? This is my greatest fear about push button cars, honestly, because my suggestion would normally be to put your house key on the same fob as your car key.

Also, get a carbon monoxide detector for every floor of your house. I have a family member who died because he left his car on, it was devastating.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is extremely serious in a garage. I knew a man who died in a townhouse because he left his car on and the carbon monoxide came into the townhouse and killed him in his sleep. Open all your windows.

Nightmarish. His neighbors are lucky that he didn't kill them too.

PP who just mentioned a family member who died from CO2 poisoning - it was also in a townhouse and my relative's neighbor didn't die, but was hospitalized as a result.

[Anonymous]

When we first moved to the U.S. I was so stressed I left the car running on the street on Capitol Hill. Luckily it was still there when I returned from my DDs class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg. I have a keyless and I regularly forget to turn off the car.
Between radios, kids seatbelts, car doors, etc there are so many buttons to press. Some get forgotten.
I can absolutely see how the OP could do this.
You really don't know until you drive one of these cars.

And why oh why is there NOT a feature that automatically turns off the engine after awhile, with no keys present? A major flaw in the production.

Yes. Why does that not happen? It makes no sense. Just think when the kids are older. If the car is left on, they could put it in drive. Why do the manufacturers think of needing to have a foot on the brake to start, but not needing a fob near to keep it running.

OP, you need to start building something into your routine. Turn car off before open door. Check that car is off after open door. Maybe lock car door with fob even though it is in the garage ( I assume this will make it beep like crazy)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG. You almost killed your entire family.

It was a hybrid...wouldn't have emitted enough fumes.

Makes me want to go out and by a hybrid.