"z" wrote in message
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Which reminds me of an off-topic:

I was watching one of those 'world's worst things caught on video'
type shows the other day, and they had a piece on some sort of big v-8
hydroplane racer with two guys in an enclosed cockpit, and something
busted in the exhaust system and it wasn't until the thing sliced
through the bow of a sailboat that the copilot realized the pilot had
nodded off from carbon monoxide. So I started wondering; do the folks
who build these know you can get a carbon monoxide monitor pretty
cheap? And then I started wondering if the folks who build closed
cockpit race cars know that? Then I started wondering if the folks who
build passenger cars know that. Then I decided to take my detector off
the wall and stick it in my car to see if I got any funny numbers at
any combination of ventilation settings.... Maybe I'll get another one
just for the car for permanent. Surprising the safety folks haven't
mandated it.

The people racing would rather take a chance than add 8 ounces to the
weight. How many times has a race driver succumbed to CO poison?

Driving a station wagon with the back window open was an invitation to
problems, but with modern ventilation, it is a rare occurrence. My Hyundai
Sonata though, does have AQS (air quality sensor) that will close the
outside air intake if it is drawing in exhaust from outside.

Mandate? Seems sort of silly to me unless you have some statistics on CO
poisoning in cars that justifies it.