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

[deckeda]

Mrs. Smith wrote:
Mrs Smith said she had decided to ''go public'' as people needed to be aware of the risks of keyless cars, particularly older people inexperienced in new technology.

I might have kept quiet. Be safe out there, folks.

http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/central-ota...eyless-car

[mrlynn]

When they were freed by neighbours about 7.45am the next day, she was unconscious and her husband was struggling to breathe.

She said they were told by emergency services if they had spent another half hour in the car and they could have died. . .

Huh? Is any car so airtight that you could really run out of breathable air overnight?

/Mr Lynn

[deckeda]

I've read you can rebreathe the same air about 30 times before it doesn't work anymore. And if you have high anxiety and stress you'll increase the pace at which you arrive at that. Not a lot of air inside a car, really, and without power it won't really draw much in on its own.

[JPK]

That is just stupid.

But I have two cars with keyless pushbutton starts and I must say I am struggling to get used to it.

Pros: Can keep fob in my pocket - doors will unlock and just push button
Can kick my foot under the rear hatch to open when I have the fob with me

Cons: Cant seem to get in the same groove about where to put fob the way I was with good old fashioned keys.

JPK

[M A V I C]

I don't understand. What does a "keyless" car have to do with pulling on a door handle once or twice to open a door from the inside? Does the Mazda 3 not have door handles?

I see one on the door here, right by the lock switch.

[cbelt3]

R . T . F . M .

[Paul F.]

cbelt3 wrote:
R . T . F . M .

O.T.D.D. (Open The Damn Door)

I would have kept quiet... the door handle is RIGHT THERE!
And, if you can't break the window with the jack, you're doing it wrong (but at least that I can understand if you're getting a bit older...).

[deckeda]

(ahem) from the article ...

- Car is new.
- The owner's manual wasn't in the car.
- Salesman told them that "only" the fob could unlock the door (presumably during a conversation intended by him to mean from outside the car.)
- On this model, pulling an interior handle will supposedly not release the lock.

So you have a perfect storm of them not looking/feeling for the manual lock switch, not looking for the elec lock switch because they were told it didn't exist (not really, but interpretation without common sense is critical problem here.)

Now that I think about it I can imagine one or two people on this forum that could get stuck the same way. Cheers!

[Article Accelerator]

I think that was a misplaced The Onion article…

[Paul F.]

I can imagine a few folks being stuck for an hour or two... tops.
But not to figure out to manually flip the unlock, and pull the door handle?
I'd be disassembling the door with a pocket knife after 2 hours... after having manually pulled, pushed, rocked, flipped, cajoled, and twisted every single part of the door.