I found this article in The Boston Globe. There does not appear to be a link to it on the web, so I have scanned in the first page of the article.

The paragraph that sprang to my attention was:

The fob also has a remote start feature.  We discovered that it works from a distance after inadvertently starting the Routan while opening the front door to our house with an armload of packages, one of which squeezed against the fob, activating the starter.  We found the Routan happily running several minutes later when heading back out for more bundles.

I am surprised that the author did not jump on this “feature” as a potentially fatal safety hazard that merited an immediate recall. Can you imagine this vehicle being parked in an attached garage and accidentally being started just before a family went to bed? It is highly likely that by morning the whole family would be dead from carbon monoxide poisoning.

We have a fob like this for controlling our garage doors.  We have to be extremely careful with keeping this fob in our pockets.  We have accidentally opened the garage door any number of times just be bending over with the fob in our pocket.  We usually treat this fob very gingerly.  When we enter the house, we carefully pull it out of our pocket and hang it from a hook in the kitchen so that we won’t accidentally open the garage door and cause our pipes to freeze in the winter cold.

I have reported this problem to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.

They made quick work of it.

The New York Times has the article A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing.

The treatment Ms. Faber received, stereotactic radiosurgery, or SRS, is one of the fastest-growing radiation therapies, a technological innovation designed to target tiny tumors and other anomalies affecting the brain or spinal cord, while minimizing damage to surrounding tissue.

Because the radiation is so concentrated and intense, accuracy is especially important. Yet, according to records and interviews, the SRS unit at Evanston lacked certain safety features, including those that might have prevented radiation from leaking outside the cone.
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Despite their complexity, the multipurpose devices are less regulated than their more simply designed competitor, the Gamma Knife, a device engineered specifically for stereotactic radiosurgery.
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For years, the Gamma Knife provided the necessary power and accuracy to accomplish its goal.

But many institutions could not afford it; the device costs upwards of $3 million and requires its own room, and treatments take longer. There is also the added difficulty of handling and replacing radioactive material.

“It doesn’t pay to have a Gamma Knife unless you have a large number of patients,” said Dr. Amols.

When I needed brain surgery for a meningioma, I am sure glad I was living close to Portland, Oregon where I could receive Gamma Knife Surgery from a doctor who had studied with the inventor of the machine.  It is too bad that the hospital could not figure out how to transfer the MRI results to a neurologist in Massachusetts after I moved back here.  So what if the neurologist here has no way of comparing my current condition to what it was just before and just after the surgery. I guess it is not important.  After all it only involves my life.