Cars will need their electronics to fully function for up to two minutes underwater so people can escape from cars in floodwaters, and audible warnings will sound if a child is left in a parked car under the new national vehicle safety measures to be introduced from next year.
A five-year-old boy died on the weekend when he was trapped inside the cabin of a Toyota Hilux swept off a flooded causeway near Parkes, in the northwest of NSW.
