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Same here. My car has keyless and there's been a few times I've had to cycle through the key a few times to see if I turned the engine off. It idles pretty quietly. I also never shut the garage door before exiting the vehicle.
However, it's a Ford, and has a few methods to try and stop the above scenario. If you exit the vehicle with engine running, the horn will honk. And also, after 30 mins of idle a screen will pop up and give you 30 seconds to hit OK or it will shut the engine down.
Also, with attached garages you are required to put a CO detector near the garage. I have one inside the garage, in the room above, and a few more combined fire/CO detectors throughout the house.
expect this happening more and more with the electric vehicles that you can hardly here when their running
^^^ Carbon Monoxide (CO) which are emitted from exhausts due to the burning of fuel. EVs do not produce any exhaust emissions, unlike conventional vehicles...
BTW: Electric vehicles are, indeed very quiet. But it will end - a UK company has designed a system that creates noise to alert pedestrians.
In Europe: from July 2019 all new EVs, both passenger and commercial, must emit a noise when travelling slowly, and existing EVs must be retrofitted with a device by 2021.
In the US all electric vehicles (and hybrids) will emit a sound while moving up to 18.6 mph by September 2020.
Heh. Parked next to a running empty car at work this morning. I talked to Security, who'd tried to page the owner with no success - so at this point, they were just waiting for the gas to run out.
However, it screams of negligence. I understand how an older gentleman may make the mistake of failing to turn off the car. But how would it not trigger the carbon monoxide detector in the garage, then in the room near the garage, then hallway, then bedroom? My alarms and my phones would all be going off (as would anyone who lived in the house -- including the wife's phone, in this case). All well before it filled up the bedroom.
May not have had a carbon monoxide detector in the house. My parents house didn't have one until they installed a gas heater even though they had a gas stove and dryer. The company that converted the original oil over to gas told them they needed one. Older homes often aren't equipped with what newer homes have by law, especially if a couple has lived in that home for a very long time. It is only when reselling and having an inspection or if the state or town you live in requires the fire department to verify alarms that it might be mentioned. Since this seems to happen with the elderly more than younger people, kids pay attention when mom and dad buy a new vehicle and instruct them how to shut it off properly and get them CO detectors if they don't have them or make sure the ones they have a working correctly or aren't the type that need to be replaced every so many years.
My truck beeps the horn 3X if it is left running and you get out and close the door. After an hour of idling it shuts off.
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Carbon Monoxide (CO) which are emitted from exhausts due to the burning of fuel. EVs do not produce any exhaust emissions, unlike conventional vehicles...
