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Spot on.
Look, I don't want to sound self righteous, but I'm going to anyway. If you don't want to read a self righteous rant, stop right now.
I have a 6 year old, and a 3 year. I work 60+ hours per week, as does my wife. My 3 year old is in pre school for special ed, hearing difficulties. My 6 year old is in kindergarten. She also does soccer. I have more going on in my life than I ever have before. As evidenced by the frequency and multitude of my posts here. And yet, with all of that, I have never once, not even CLOSE, come to the point of forgetting that my kids are in the car with me. Ever. Not once come close to forgetting they are in the car when I leave the car. Now, I'm not gonna say these parents do this crap on PURPOSE. But maybe...leave the cellphone home every now and then. Unplug. Remove the distractions.
BE A GOD DAMN PARENT.
You simply can't remove all distractions. This started happening in the 90s, before cell phones existed. It has little to do with cell phones, and so much to do with how people think. You simply can't change everyone, but you can provide more things to try to prevent it, alerts or something. Hell, a cell phone app on this might actually help. Figure out an app that sends an alert to you as soon as you reach your destination. Everyone might not use it but combined with other things, such as a car sensor, it could help. Saying "well be a good parent" simply isn't going to work. Not everyone is the same, people don't have minds that work the same way.