Lexus Family Safety Camp
How is this for awesome? I got invited to go to the Lexus Family Safety Camp, held at the Kidspace Children’s Museum in Pasadena, CA, to learn about vehicle safety. Some things I already know about, like ABS brakes (yep, used those on some of the few snowy days we’ve had here—pretty freaky when you’re not expecting it to kick in). But other things, like vehicle stability control (VSC), brake override system, Bluetooth, and Lexus telematics I’ve read about but don’t understand because neither my Sienna nor my RX330 have them.
So, Lexus is flying me down to California so I can test drive vehicles with these features at the Rose Bowl parking lot (yay!). I’ll get to talk with my friend Stephanie Tombrello of SafetyBeltSafe USA about child passenger safety and Janette Fennell of KidsAndCars.org, who is dedicated to reducing injury and death to children in and around vehicles. For each person who attends the camp, Lexus is making a donation so that low-income, inner-city kids can enjoy the Kidspace Children’s Museum, which is located next to the Rose Bowl.
I’ll tweet my way through the event and take lots of pictures as I go. Camp Lexus will also be videotaping, so you’ll all get to see how dorky I look as I drive 
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Reader Comments
Woohoo! How awesome is that!? Can’t wait to read about it, Heather!
Oh, that’s cool! Can anyone attend, or do you have to be special? :p
It’s a private event, so Joe Q. Public can’t just show up off the street, but they did take registrations for it on a Lexus forum.
Sounds like fun! Do you get to give them suggestions on what makes vehicles easier for installing carseats?
Awesome! I am jealous!
That’s awesome, congrats! Wanna swing by Burbank while you’re here & help me with a tricky install? ;o)
Burbank is where I’m flying into, so . . . LOL! It sounds like my day is pretty full. I’m looking forward to seeing the museum–pretty disappointed I couldn’t take my kids with me, but end-of-school activities and baseball games got in the way.
(but more mommyvans than anything, lol).
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I hope to be able to provide feedback on carseat installation. I don’t have a lot of experience with Lexus vehicles other than my RX330 (and I do have some suggestions for that one!); I see a lot of Mercedes and Acuras at the events I frequent
No kudos to the husband taking a day off work to watch the kids while you’re playing with cars?
Of course, dear! Without our wonderful spouses, we wouldn’t be able to do any of this
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Kudos to Matt and all the other supportive spouses – thank you!!