Really.....

[Famspear]

Tragedy in Texas.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-man-d ... ocked-car/

[Judge Roy Bean]

Tragedy in Texas.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-man-d ... ocked-car/

This should be standard equipment in every vehicle:



http://www.amazon.com/Car-Hammer-Emerge ... 063&sr=1-4

[Famspear]

The car in question was a late-model Chevy Corvette. I have not looked at the interior of one up close in a long long time. I would be curious as to why General Motors would design a car so that you would have to fumble through an owner's manual just to try to figure out how to get out of the car when the electric power is disabled.

I wonder what the designers at General Motors were thinking. Why play hide the ball on something that important?

I am curious as to how many vehicles in America today have this problem.

I know that the owner's manuals for my car and for my wife's car (they're both Toyotas) are not a model of clarity and organization. I can easily see how someone could panic in the heat when trying to find something in one of those manuals.

[Judge Roy Bean]

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I am curious as to how many vehicles in America today have this problem.

I know that the owner's manuals for my car and for my wife's car (they're both Toyotas) are not a model of clarity and organization. I can easily see how someone could panic in the heat when trying to find something in one of those manuals.

My guess, based on Mrs. Bean's 7-volume stack of marginally-accurate documentation for her BMW product is that technology has overwhelmed common sense - hence my recommendation for the hammer tool IN ALL CASES.

Even the dealer has been confounded by some of the documentation errors and the factory did not have viable corrections. Fortunately, those issues didn't affect ingress and egress (although one does involve the alarm).

Long and short of today's vehicles - anything software-controlled with electrically-driven windows and door locks is subject to entrapment.

A cautionary note - the hammer tool is vastly preferable to the discharge of a firearm; while equally effective, the results of pulling the trigger in a vehicle are, as IBM used to say when their Operating System software went off the rails, "unpredictable."

Go to the store, spend the money on the hammer. If you own one, you'll probably never need it. If you don't, you'll wish you did.