Mr Smith said his message for owners of ''keyless''cars - not just Mazda models - was to educate themselves on how to op

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GGD wrote:
I'm still wondering how the doors got locked in the first place. I've been in cars that automatically lock the doors when you start the car, or put it into gear, and unlock them when you put it into Park and turn off the engine, but that couldn't have happened since they didn't have the key.

I let that one pass because they could have opened the doors, locked it, set the key down, then got in. I'll give them that much slack.

And from the picture MAVIC posted, I see that besides the familiar mechanical unlock button right next to each door handle there is an electric lock/unlock button on the driver's door. I'm suspecting that lock button was pressed to lock them in, and immediately pressing the button less than an inch below it would have unlocked them. On my cars those electric locks work without the key, even the cars made long before keyless ignition.

I've read elsewhere, and think I see in the picture, that the lock/unlock switch is a mechanical one. You flip it back and forth. I read it was dark in the car, and apparently they couldn't figure out how to turn on the interior lights, or exterior lights and thus illuminate key interior buttons.

But they did manage to crawl in the back, get the spare tire jack out, and smack at a window. Of course, they probably tried the rear window instead of the door windows.