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

[Paul F.]

*cough* sorry.. Was reading too much into your post :facepalm:

[silvarios]

RAMd®d wrote:
All I can say is wait until you get to be their age and apply today's technology rules to what's coming and see if you can survive. It's not as clearcut as you may think.

Exactly.

Some people suffer from the It Is Until It Isn't Syndrome.

Wait, doesn't the car have manual unlocks in essentially the same place as every other car? Did the couple only recently start driving? Serious question. This isn't so much a question about a new fangled technology passing people by, so much as people never understanding how any of their prior vehicles functioned. Or, possibly are new to driving. Things make sense when you have an institutional memory, if you've never been in a car, maybe not so much.

[GGD]

silvarios wrote:
Wait, doesn't the car have manual unlocks in essentially the same place as every other car? Did the couple only recently start driving? Serious question. This isn't so much a question about a new fangled technology passing people by, so much as people never understanding how any of their prior vehicles functioned. Or, possibly are new to driving. Things make sense when you have an institutional memory, if you've never been in a car, maybe not so much.

Those are my thoughts too, even if they've never driven a car, have they ever been a passenger? I knew a whole lot about how to lock and unlock a car door, and lock myself in to keep my siblings out when I was a child, long before ever getting a drivers license.

I do find automatic locking when driving annoying and also prefer that when I unlock with a key, all doors unlock. On some of my cars the factory default was different than that but the behavior was programmable so I changed it to my liking. But when I get a rental car, I usually wind up with lock behavior that I don't like.

[Rick-o]

Nothing to offer in this thread except to say: That's hilarious!! miley-laughing001:

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CW2V

[M A V I C]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
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[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
FWIW... I drive a keyless vehicle -- the door locks automatically engage when I reach 15 MPH and they do NOT unlock when I engage the interior door handle.

Even if you pull it twice? I haven't been in many cars, but I've never seen one that wouldn't unlock without pulling it once or twice.
Even if I pull it twice.
Interesting. What car is that?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

M A V I C wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
[quote=M A V I C]
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
FWIW... I drive a keyless vehicle -- the door locks automatically engage when I reach 15 MPH and they do NOT unlock when I engage the interior door handle.

Even if you pull it twice? I haven't been in many cars, but I've never seen one that wouldn't unlock without pulling it once or twice.
Even if I pull it twice.
Interesting. What car is that?
Infiniti G37.