Hyundai America has announced that by 2022, Rear Occupant Alert (ROA) door-logic system will be standard on most of its new vehicles. The company will also make its optional Ultrasonic Rear Occupant Alert, or a similar sensor-based system, available on more of its models in the future.
The aforementioned door-logic system detects if a rear door was opened or closed before the car was started, then reminds the driver to check the rear seat with a message on the MID in the instrument cluster when exiting the vehicle.
The Ultrasonic ROA, as the name suggests, uses an ultrasonic sensor that helps detect the movements of children or pets in the second-row seats. If the system detects any movements after the driver leaves the vehicle and locks the doors, it will honk several times to grab the driver’s attention and send an alert to the driver’s smartphone via Hyundai’s Blue Link connected car system (if equipped with Blue Link and the Blue Link service is active).
Currently, the 2020 Santa Fe and Palisade SUVs get the door-logic ROA as standard equipment, while the Ultrasonic ROA is available as an option. Later this year, the 2020 Sonata will feature standard door-logic ROA. The 2019 Santa Fe too gets the Ultrasonic ROA as an option.
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