Yeah, I get a lot of things, including the fact that the baby industry plays on fear of remote possibilities to increase their sales. If "quite a few" babies died this way, it'd be big news -- like SIDS. I googled it, and this isn't big news; the few articles that mentioned it listed it way down on the list of car seat necessities. There's a line between reasonable caution and paranoia.
I do completely agree that keeping the baby in a car seat indoors is a bad idea -- but because the crib is much more comfortable.
I too have been a mom for many moons, and my children are driving now rather than riding in car seats. I've heard advice from "the experts" change too many times to become overly excited about it. For example, my mother's doctor told her that she was giving us "second-best" by breastfeeding us, and if she really cared about us she'd buy formula; when one child was born premature, he forbid her to nurse that child and, fearful, she obeyed. Today's experts say just the opposite. Another example: How many times since my own children were born have experts flip-flopped on the side-sleep, back-to-sleep thing? You can't buy into everything they say.
