Tons of advances are happening in car technology right now as we head towards totally automated vehicles. While the technological advances that are happening are incredible, there are new issues arising with them every day.

Sadly, cars are still incredibly dangerous, and children are killed in car accidents every day. This is why Janette Fennell, president of the “Kids and Cars” safety organization, has just released a video showing a simple hack that could save your child’s life.

One of the biggest advances in the automotive industry was the introduction of the push-to-start ignition, which lets you start the car by simply pressing a button. Unfortunately, this push-to-start ignition can also lead to carbon monoxide poisoning. Since all you have to do is press a button, this ignition makes it easy to forget to turn off your car when you get in your garage. All it takes is a few minutes of your car running in the garage to kill you.

That’s why Janette is urging all drivers to keep a carbon monoxide monitor in their garages.

Windows also pose a threat to children, as it can kill them if their heads get stuck in them. Janette has a tip for this as well.

“No one really thinks about it until it happens,” she said.  “It only takes 22 pounds of force to break the trachea of a small child, but the power windows we have in our cars all have between 30 and 80 pounds of force when they go up very quickly and very powerfully.”

She says that you should use paper towels to test if your windows have an auto-reverse mechanism, which will detect if an object is in the window’s way and force the window to go back down, she continued.

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“Use a roll of paper towels,” she said. “If [the window] squishes your paper towel, you know you don’t have the feature. If it bounces down, you know you do.”

If you do not have this feature, Janette says that you should be especially cautious when your children are in the car.

Find out more of her life-saving tips in the video below!

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