Post #1620502

2026-03-18 18:14 UTC

@silver_buttercat @johannab @ai6yr @kajord and my son may have been atypical but at times it would take 45 minutes or longer to get him to get in (or out) of the car when he was being a stubborn toddler and didn't want to go home from preschool. Or when he was a baby or toddler he would fall asleep in the car and we would either keep driving or pull over and let him sleep - in either case not something we would have done in a driverless vehicle (imagine one driving off with a sleeping baby)

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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org 2026-03-18 18:20

@Rycaut @silver_buttercat @johannab @kajord Not atypical... getting kids in and out of cars was a PITA when they were that age. And (I know, I know burning gasoline) at some points we w would sometimes take a long unnecessary drive because the kids would zonk out and sleep while on a drive. There's probably a better, eco-friendly way to do that, lol.

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@johannab@cosocial.ca 2026-03-19 00:36

@Rycaut @silver_buttercat @ai6yr @kajord oof, thanks for that nightmare fuel. I went through a severe bout of postpartum anxiety where night terrors and intrusive thoughts mostly fixated on something happening to my daughter because she was stuck in her carseat. 😬 pls don't worry about triggering that, it's a decade past resolved, but I mean YES I GET THAT WORRY AND HOW DO PEOPLE THINK IT OK TO LET THESE THINGS LOOSE IN THE WORLD.

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