Kids in car, a.c. stopped working, will they suffocate?
Okay so I never leave my children in the car hot or not I dont leave them unattended, however my air conditioner stopped working yesterday and im wondering if they will suffocate from the heat if I have the windows cracked and am driving around... I plan to get it fixed asap but do now I need to know if I cant bring them anywhere.
Should there be air vents in cars so that children do not suffocate in them?
Children don’t suffocate in cars; they overheat. You can leave a child in a car on a 50-degree (F) day and he’ll be fine. Leave the same kid in the same car when it’s 90-degrees (F) and he won’t last long. Cars turn into ovens on a hot, sunny day because of their glass windows. This is why tinting and/or window shades can make a huge difference in how hot a car gets inside. Just remember if you think about leaving your child in a locked car that it will get 20–30 degrees (or more) warmer in the car than outside within just a few minutes. So if it’s 90 outside, it could be 120 inside the car, which is more than hot enough to cause heat stroke, dehydration and death.
Joke Question : Will I suffocate in a moving car if the AC and fan are turned off?
Be warned and very careful when you do this.I don't think the air tight integrity of cars are so great, but cars do float in floods, remember! It's because of the air they hold!In your vent control, you can choose to get fresh air from the outside or recirculate the inside air. In extremely hot climates, it is better for the AC to keep the air inside recirculating, for you don't want to keep pumping in hot air for the AC to work hard all the time, and still not accomplish sufficient cooling.However, if you do this for long enough, the air inside will eventually run out of oxygen, lull you to sleep, and indeed suffocate you. So, even if you switch your AC off, keep the vent control to let in fresh air. If the fan is off, it won't be forceful, but it will bring in enough oxygen.There are a good number of people, both adults and kids who have suffocated inside a car, though in many cases, not moving. I trust this is more due to people being more alert in a moving car and perhaps knowing when to open the window.Seven or eight people inside a car, windows closed, AC or no AC, fresh air vent closed, is asking for trouble. Even worse, it can make the driver drowsy and less able to drive safely.
How many people suffocate each year trying to sleep in modern cars?
How many people suffocate each year trying to sleep in modern cars?And do not tell me ‘you cannot suffocate in a car’. There’s hundreds of cases each year of children being locked in modern cars for hours and suffocating. Even in the winter. There was also a New Zealand couple who almost suffocated spending the night in a modern car.While it might be technically possible to suffocate in a modern car, by far the most common way is suicide by carbon monoxide. Cars have enough internal volume to keep you breathing easy for several hours even if they were sealed, which they are not. In addition, rising carbon dioxide is not a peaceful way to die: you don't just fall asleep, you will be struggling to breathe and have a splitting headache. I doubt that the number is high at all. I know I have slept in at least two different makes and models, and I'm not dead.
Is it dangerous to leave your car heaters on while asleep inside the car?
No the heater doesn't give off carbon monoxide. The car's engine produces carbon monoxide as exhaust. Driving down the road you're leaving that carbon monoxide behind you. Sit still, with the engine running and any leak or small hole in the car can let that exhaust enter the car. When I was in high school two families lost their kids when they fell asleep in the local lovers lane with the engine running and died from carbon monoxide poisoning..
For how long can you breathe in a closed car with air-conditioning off?
The average person suffer major problems from dehydration after about three days, though how long it takes until you stop breathing varies widely by circumstances and individual health.With the exception of a very few very specifically designed vehicles, no car is truly "closed" in the sense of being airtight. Pretty much every commercially available vehicle allowed enough air exchange for you to breathe. If you're trapped in a car that's not underwater, suffocation won't kill you.
Can the recirculate air button in a car suffocate you eventually?
Will clicking the “circulate air inside car” button eventually make me breathe all the oxygen out of the air, and suffocate me?Try this experiment. Click your recirculate button on your car’s ventilation system, set the fan to its lowest setting and then go to your nearest highway. Find a large diesel truck to follow for a short while, intentionally driving in its exhaust. Smell that? That's the evidence that cars are not hermetically sealed.Ever.Those scenes in movies or television programs where a despondent person wants to commit suicide so they duct tape a garden hose to their exhaust pipe and run the other end into their passenger compartment isn’t so much a fallacy - people have been known to commit suicide that way - as it is more along the lines of gilding the lily. If you sit in a closed garage with the vent system off completely it won’t be long before you’ll be breathing exhaust.tl/dr: No. Cars are not well sealed at all, by design. The re-circulation setting reduces the amount of outside air in the cabin but does not eliminate it to any great degree. You won’t be in danger of suffocation.
Safe to drive with the windows open with infant in car?
We do not have AC in our car and we are going to be babysitting my 2.5 year old nephew and 4.5 month old niece for 2 months while their dad does an out of state internship with a large company and their mom finishes up her Bachelors degree by doing a whole years worth of classes packed into an 8 week period (24 credit hours, which is a whole year of full time education). Anyway, a friend told us that you cannot drive with the windows down with an infant in the car because all the wind will suffocate them. I looked online but couldn't find this anywhere. Is this true? If so, what is your source? Also, if that is true, what can I do (other than fixing the AC or getting a new car, because it would cost over $500 to fix the AC and it is a 1996 and probably doesn't have enough life left to merit putting $500 into it) to drive the kids and keep them cool if I can't roll the windows down?
Why do some people vomit when travelling on a bus/car (especially kids), whereas some do not?
Motion is sensed by the brain through different pathways of the nervous system including the inner ear, the eyes, and the tissues of the body surface.When the body is moved intentionally, for example when walking, the input from all of the pathways are coordinated by our brain.The symptoms of motion sickness appear when the central nervous system receives conflicting messages from the sensory systems: the inner ear, eyes, skin pressure receptors, and the muscle and joint sensory receptors.As an example, if someone is sat on a boat or in a car (not looking out of a window), their inner ears sense movement up and down, left and right, but their eyes see a static view, as if they are not moving at all. It is hypothesized that the conflict among the inputs is responsible for motion sickness.