One small but welcome byproduct of declaring Cars.com’s Best of 2020 winner as the Hyundai Palisade, a three-row SUV, is that we chose a vehicle built for road trips just a few months before a pandemic made them practically indispensable. We’ve whiled away countless hours behind the wheel ferrying ourselves and our families to such distant and exotic Illinois locales as Schaumburg and Calumet City. (It’s amazing what kind of mileage you can put on a car just going between Chicagoland suburbs.) Most of the time, these trips are uneventful — but on our pre-COVID-19 mileage drive to Toronto, we had the opportunity to see firsthand how effective Hyundai’s Rear Occupant Alert System can be.