2 of a HUNDRED WAYS CAR REMOTE KEYS CAN KILL YOUR FAMILY
A remote key (keyless car) stranded for 24 hours a savvy, experienced driver, a lone female member of my family, 100 miles from home, putting her in danger.
The car user’s manual didn’t tell her that if the key falls out of the car while the engine is running, you can still drive unlimited miles; then the car can’t start once stopped; you are stranded and the car cannot be towed because the steering is locked.
1 - TYPICAL POSSIBLE EVENT FOR ANY PARENT:
A young father with three children on board stops in a motorway service area and while the children run in to buy sweets, the father leaves the engine running, and steps out of the car to stretch his legs; he pulls a tissue out of his pocket and the tiny remote key falls on the ground, unnoticed.
The children return and pile into the car.
Over their chatter he does not hear or notice a soft tone and message on the dashboard screen behind the steering wheel “key not in vehicle”.
Why should he notice this message when the car is constantly “crying wolf” with pointless messages.
A few minutes later father and children are stuck in a motorway holdup that has lasted for 20 minutes and he carefully creeps his car forward in the holdup that crawls forward a few feet at a time.
All around, drivers are turning off their engines as the holdup is visible far ahead in the distance. To save petrol the father turns off the engine.
No one has told him that without the tiny remote key present in the car, once the engine has been turned off the car cannot be restarted.
The traffic suddenly starts moving but as he tries to restart the car a message flashes up “key not detected”. The car and steering are now disabled.
Fast vehicles are veering to avoid the family car trapped and stopped in a motorway lane. A second later a six-tonne goods vehicle driver, not realising the car is stopped, crashes into the back of the family car; all are killed.
After our deep searches on the net, it looks like the the motor industry has buried this type of danger. Utube has lots of videos by shocked drivers, testing their cars, driving unlimited miles with the remote key left at home.
2 - FACTUAL DEATHS:
In the USA there are a myriad of news stories about families being killed by remote keys (keyless cars) pumping CO gas into homes from garages:
here is a link to one report in The New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/business/deadly-convenience-keyless-cars-and-their-carbon-monoxide-toll.html
I hope this message saves lives.