Every year we lose our children to heat, because we forgot them in our cars. This seems like a easy fix with all the types of safety sensors today, and children are priceless.
Install pressure sensors in all seating areas, as soon as the vehicle key is turned of a voice or alarm sounds within 15 seconds when weight is sensored: Please check your vehicle for your children, weight sensored in rear seating area, (as an example)
This would not be costly to have all aoutomobile makers add this safety feature, we could save up to a hundred lives a yaer or more.
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I like part of your idea.
The idiots who leave their children in a hot car "I'll only be inside for a minute" would not pay attention to an alarm of any sort. Senseless, and stupid, and you're right, it happens every year.
Then again, if you wired this up to dial a 911 call and get the police there to haul the parent to jail for child abuse, then I would be in support of this!
Um, how does your sensor know the difference between a child and a bowling ball? Or a bag of groceries? Or a suitcase? (These are all things that I have tossed in the back seat from time to time.)
The truck I drive at work has sensors that alert me when one of the passengers does not have a seat belt on. It was annoying as hell to have to have to buckle the seat belts if I was hauling equipment in the back seat. I say was because we discovered the manufacturer included a code to disable the alarm. The owner's manual made no mention of the code but there are plenty of "how to's" on the internet.
If occupant alarms that went off when the vehicle was parked were to be installed I would bet on most people disabling them in short order.