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Child presence detection addresses a situation that can arise after a trip: a child remains inside a vehicle. Euro NCAP added child presence detection to its updated 2023 safety testing protocol. The change makes it useful to ask a more precise question than whether a car has a strong overall safety rating. What risk does a particular feature address, and what does the assessment actually say about it? Why is this a separate safety issue? Many familiar vehicle safety systems address a crash or a possible collision. Child presence detection concerns an occupied cabin after a vehicle has been parked. Its purpose is to help identify that a child remains inside so that a responsible person can respond. The general feature name does not, by itself, tell a buyer what the car senses, how it alerts someone, or which circumstances are covered. Those details belong to the specific vehicle and system. A shopper should look at the vehicle’s own feature description and relevant assessment rather th...