Just grab the other key to the truck, make sure the “myKey” or restricted key isn’t in the truck and use the menu that you can access from the steering wheel to deactivate it. It’s usually settings - vehicle - myKey - clear MyKeys
just buy a seat belt extender and defeat the system, its locked in and warnings go away
Your moral high ground is pathetic. And naive, too.
I totally get where you’re coming from, the child reminder is a bit crazy. However, a member of our church recently was home doing parent duties he wasn’t used to and brought his daughter into the office completely by mistake this past summer. She died in the car that day. It was early, she was super quiet and it was dark and just like that a small distraction left her in the back seat. Call him an idiot, call him stupid, call it whatever you like, but it’s a mistake he made that killed his little girl and changed his life forever. I still have to pause when talking or typing about it because I can’t imagine how it feels.
You can't trump someone's personal experience with tragedy - so I won't try.
I feel the same way. My daughter goes to stay at a friend’s for the weekend since the dance team is getting to know each other this year. The list of things the girls could or couldn’t bring was ridiculous. One kid is gluten free, one kid can’t have sugar, one kid can’t be in the same room as a certain type of latex. One kid can’t eat nuts of any kind - I sent her over with the napkins and plastic silverware.
Right, not being annoyed by a feature that saves kids lives and does very little to effect me is pathetic.
I agree and there are many circumstances that go too far and impend on other people not effected. It’s the affected persons responsibility to adhere to their issue. Not everyone else’s. This however shouldn’t be one of them. It’s like saying smoke alarms are stupid and annoying because I’ll never set my house on fire.
In effect, Ford is taxing Bronco buyers ~$5M/year to provide this safety feature (~$20/per X # Wrangler units sold). I can think of numerous other safety features that Could save lives:
I mean sure but defibrillators are expensive.
If I don't have kids or pets or any other dependents/animals why would such a thing be on by default? Or similar nannies turned on automatically with every restart of the vehicle?
Ok yes I agree on much of this but it’s not about relying on “nannies” or people’s feelings. It’s about a helpless innocent child. That’s what trumps all these other issues and scenarios.If I don't have kids or pets or any other dependents/animals why would such a thing be on by default? Or similar nannies turned on automatically with every restart of the vehicle?
Offering a service or letting you opt into something is one thing, forcing it on everyone because a few made a mistake and hurt societies feelings is different. Lowest-common-denominator doesn't have to apply to people -- if you're expected to be responsible enough to operate a vehicle, you should be expected to have common sense.
Nannies just make people more dependent on outside forces to solve their problems for them, and less likely to take responsibility themselves.
To take your example, I don't think you should be legally required to have a smoke detector in your house, or to wear a seatbelt. At the same time, if you have common sense I expect you to see the value in those things and choose to use them when it is appropriate. That's your responsibility. If you don't and your house burns down, that's sad, but the result shouldn't be the community demanding that everyone install them because it hurt their feelings when your house burned down -- it should be people learning from your mistake and reevaluating their own use of smoke detectors, or seatbelts, or occupant reminders.
If you don't have a smoke detector, or insurance, and you burn your house down and the neighbors house, again that's your responsibility (and to a lesser extent, theirs, they should consider the possibility that their insurance etc. should take into account forces outside their control). Just because you have a smoke alarm, or a fire department, or a fire extinguisher, etc. etc. doesn't mean the sad story of a few houses burning down should force everyone to install fire suppression devices and cameras in their house so they can be monitored by the "safety dept", even though that would very likely result in fewer fires and property losses.
It all boils down to where you draw the line for the expectation that people take responsibility. The direction of the mob seems to be lower and lower standards.
