Group wants garage-door type autoreverse on power windows

[spitfiregirl52]

I know for my car, there's a button the driver can push that disallows any passengers from using the automatic windows... Seems to work fine when I have my two-year-old niece in the car.

[tjts1]

If you manage to kill yourself with a car window, I'm sorry but you had it coming. If the window doesn't get, something else will. You're too stupid for this life. Better luck in the next one. I say we keep car windows the way they are and people can take their chances. Do you really want to be driving next to someone that could otherwise be killed by a car window? Let the window do its job. Its natural selection at work.

[PaleMelanesian]

Why so negative, tjts1?

[tjts1]

Why are you so concerned about being positive all the time? What are you afraid of? Think about it. Do you really want to share the road with someone that can't operate a power window without killing themselves? If the window doesn't get them something else equally stupid will.

[Chuck]

Originally Posted by tjts1

Why are you so concerned about being positive all the time? What are you afraid of? Think about it. Do you really want to share the road with someone that can't operate a power window without killing themselves? If the window doesn't get them something else equally stupid will.

I'll agree with the part about needed to cope with life even if every conceivable safety feature is not in place.

Having acknowledged that point, I have to concur with Andrew about the recent negative posts - it does not come off as cool at all, but rather a turn off. Andrew is not positive all the time - just saying the bitter tones are unhelpful...just imagine you are listening to such content for a change.

[PaleMelanesian]

Also consider that those most endangered by power windows are NOT the same ones driving the vehicle - namely children.

[St. Mushroom]

I'm just amazed that parents apparently aren't buckling in their kids half the time. How is that even possible?

[PaleMelanesian]

The kids don't like it, and I don't like them protesting, but I still do it every time. I'm with you - I don't understand those who don't.

It is possible for windows to be an issue even in a stationary vehicle, though.

[WriConsult]

The issue is not about this happening while the car is being driven, or even when an adult is physically present. Any sane and sober adult should be able to intervene in a window-strangling situation before death occurs.

But I remember this actually being a BIG talked-about problem when I was a kid in the 70s. The problem was that a kid would stick their head out the open window of a parked car while inadvertently standing on the power-window switch.

Things have changed though, and I think it's pretty much NOT an problem today:

• You can no longer operate the power windows without the key in the ignition.
• Most power window switches [except, apparently, those on '99 Buicks] are now designed so the window goes DOWN rather than UP if you put weight on them.
• We now live in a paranoid nanny-state where kids are much less likely to be left unattended in a parked vehicle. When I was a kid it was normal to leave your kids in the car when you ran into the store. Now, at least if they're young kids, you get arrested for it.

[Shiba3420]

Another knock is just "more to go wrong". A bad sensor could keep you from rolling your window back up, and depending on design could even force a window to open.

However, I wouldn't mind requiring a lockout switch on the drivers controls. That seems good compromise.