Should CO alarms be required in cars?

"AntiSpeed" (AntiSpeed) 03/22/2017 at 00:22 • Filed to: None

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Saw a story where two teenagers died because exhaust was leaking into the car. It looks like CO sensors are pretty cheap so why not put them in cars?

Here’s a Yamaha R6 because it’s pretty.

wiffleballtony > AntiSpeed 03/22/2017 at 00:29

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I want claxons whenever I enter Colorado as well.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > AntiSpeed 03/22/2017 at 00:30

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I don’t think it’s a bad idea but at the same time there are so few instances of this being a problem (other then suicide and police cruisers) that I don’t think it will ever become main stream. Also, electricity doesn’t release CO2(from the car) so then it would be pointless.

CRider > AntiSpeed 03/22/2017 at 00:30

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CO shouldn’t be a problem in a car with a functioning catalytic converter. If you’re driving some old crapcan with an exhaust that leaks without throwing codes AND manages to get into the car, this law won’t help.  

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > CRider 03/22/2017 at 00:47

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About 20 years ago I borrowed my mother’s 1990 VW Vanagon to help a friend move. Before we started this 350 mile trip we were sitting for about 15 minutes with the car running (it was a cold evening), making a few phone calls when we started to notice a few of the symptoms of CO poisoning (dizziness, confusion, light-headedness, nausea amongst others). Thankfully we recognized what was happening and got some fresh air, but this occurred on a fanatically well-maintained, smog-legal car in California.

When the car was moving, CO wasn’t a problem. Although adding a CO sensor sounds like a good idea on the surface, I suspect that the conditions that would actually trigger such an alarm would be few and far between.

Toby F., Manager > AntiSpeed 03/22/2017 at 00:55

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I thought I had a million dollar idea, but then found that it already exists. For example:  https://www.amazon.com/72-9021-Pocket-Carbon-Monoxide-Detector/dp/B001G0STBK

bob and john > AntiSpeed 03/22/2017 at 01:07

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came and stayed for R6.

Manny05x > AntiSpeed 03/22/2017 at 07:51

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Wow that r6 is sexy.

MM54 > AntiSpeed 03/22/2017 at 17:45

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Required? Absolutely fucking not.

Is it a good idea to have one, especially in an older car? Probably.

torque > AntiSpeed 03/23/2017 at 01:14

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Two very Simple reasons

1. Rarely a problem

2. Liability