European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Summer dangers in cars for kids and pets in summer the temperature inside a ear parked in a sunny lot can climb to 160� f in minutes. Children or pets can suffer brain damage or suffocate from the heat. Even a car in the Shade with the windows open can get Tod hot. Pets Are even More sensitive to heat. Than children. Humane societies and animal control offices in the Washington area estimate they receive 950 Calls a summer about pets left in cars. Pets Are particularly vulnerable to heat the Only Way they have to perspire is through the Tongue. In heatstroke the body temperature becomes elevated usually above 107� of symptoms Are panting slobbering vomiting and diarrhoea a leading to collapse and coma with hot dry skin and Gray lips. First Aid move animal to Cool place and soak with cold water. A get to veterinarian promptly. This is a life threatening emergency. V \ \ tips on choosing the right safety seat the Best Protection you can give your child is a safety seat follow manufacturers directions. Be sure All straps Are adjusted snugly the a. Safest place for a child is in the Center of the Back seat. Be sure that. The Model you have fits the child. Here Are some typical safety seats infant seats face backward. For babies birth to. Six months. 18 pounds it. Toddler seats face Forward. For children 18 to 40 pounds. Lives saved the National Highway traffic safety administration estimates that in 1987 alone safety seats saved the lives of 200 children under 4 and prevented 28,000 youngsters from being injured. Y Booster seats Are for children 25 to 65 pounds midpoint of child a head must not be above Back of seat sources am Womac. Area Humana Socie Liei Century products co. Washington Post lust ration by Johnstone Quma latest in lighting new York times w Ith headlights Brake lights warning lights and instrument panels a typical car can have As Many As 80 Light bulbs All consuming Power All gradually wearing out. General electric co. Is developing a Way to replace them All with one Central a Hting system. With the Light engine which be expects to introduce before the end of the decade Light is a piped Quot Man a Star shaped lamp through a fiber optic str system to whatever application the Driver chooses. There Are no wires and no bulbs to Burn out. The Cost is expected to be comparable to that of conventional automotive lighting systems. The lamp would employ the technology used in stadium and Street lighting known As discharge Forward lighting. In such lamps electrical current flows Between two electrodes encased in a sealed tube filled with Metal halide Gas heating up the Gas and producing Light rather than through a filament. Because there is no filament to heat up and melt the lamp can operate at far higher temperatures producing a brighter Light while consuming less Power. Be says the Light engine will use the Power of just three of today s Halogen headlights. The company expects individual headlights using discharge Forward lighting to be in automobiles before 1995. They have four times the efficiency of incandescent bulbs and allow far smaller headlights said John Davenport manager of concept development for be lighting. The Light engine concept allows the cards front lights to be less than one Inch High a a Boon to designers seeking More aerodynamic shapes. The system is also expected to Cut manufacturers Assembly costs because of the elimination of wiring and multiple Light bulbs. Jay july a i99o the stars and stripes Page 15
