On 3/29/16 3:08 PM, Malcom Mal Reynolds wrote:
saw a news story about the danger of keyless ignitions, seems a small
subset of the drivers often forget to actually hit the start/stop button
to actually turn the car off. One woman said that this happened to her
and she woke up to her kids screaming headache, deciding to take the kid
to the ER she opened the garage door and was overwhelmed by the fumes
after having left the car run for 5 hours.

Aside from the fact that this indicates a pretty bad problem with
isolating the garage from the house properly or that in five hours she
never heard the car running, the real question is: could a car run for 5
hours in a "sealed" garage?

I would expect the car might overheat or run out of oxygen. So, how long
could you expect a car to run in a "sealed" garage?


Two airport stories from a Volvo dealership.

Guy goes to the airport, parks car, forgets to hit the off button.
Comes back days later, car is out of gas with a dead battery.

Husband drives to airport with wife. Curbside, he leaves with fob in
pocket. Wife drives to mall. Hits off button. You guess the rest.........

The dealer also tested the fact that car will not shut itself down if
fob goes away. Drove fob 5 miles away. Car kept running in the service
bay.