Couple trapped in car for 13 hours: AKA common sense WTF
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Was going to post this to the funny stuff thread, but there's too much WTF in this.
How do you go that long without trying the door handle. Seriously, you get to the point where your wife is unconscious and nearing death and don't even bother trying the door handle? How stupid do you have to be?
I think all owners of keyless cars need to educate themselves in how to operate their car
Yes, we certainly need to educate people on the basics of how a fucking door works.
Filed under: make something "idiot proof" and the world will create a better idiot
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trying the door handle
I assume they mean unlocking the door via a manual switch? How do they normally open the door? Aside from the Mazda quote, this reads like a satire site.
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My car has an electric lock, but (at least for the driver) you can always open the door from inside. The handle unlocks the door when you try to open it. The lock keeps people from opening the door from outside.
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I assume they mean unlocking the door via a manual switch? How do they normally open the door?
If it's anything like my car, if you try to open the door from the inside when the car is locked the door will just open (that's how I read it). This is quite a standard feature.
I've since been shown that I could have opened the door manually with the door handle
I thought the door would only work with the transponder, so I didn't try the handle
So you just sat there and waited for death?
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Yeah, I've been in lots of cars where you can open the door simply by using the handle when it's locked.
You get the idea we'd be better off if the neighbors had slept in.
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This is no laughing matter, people! That poor family could have DIED!
Government needs to get involved here. We need public service announcements and training camps and courses. When cops stop you, they should question you if you know how to open the car's door and fine you if you don't. We did it for seat belts, and now we can save even more lives with this!
In fact, I can already see lawsuits pending. Pretty soon, car manufacturers will start forcing people to confirm "I know how to close the doors" contract form before they can enter the car. That will bring the death rate down even further.
It will be difficult, but with good lessons gleamed from similar crisis, we will defeat the nationwide scourge of people trapped inside cars ignorant they can use handle to open the doors. We can do it, people! Yes we can!
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if you try to open the door from the inside when the car is locked the door will just open
If mine's locked, the handle needs to be pulled twice - the first pull unlocks the door and the button pops up, the second pull actually opens the door.
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If mine's locked, the handle needs to be pulled twice - the first pull unlocks the door and the button pops up, the second pull actually opens the door.
That sounds way too complicated for these morons.
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Please keep this man: @cartman82 out of any and all governments.
Also: @-mention list box helper thingy not working.
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That sounds way too complicated for these morons.
Maybe that was what happened? They tried once, the door didn't open and they gave up
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Also: @-mention list box helper thingy not working.
It's working for me, but very delayed. I guess Discourse can't handle a few characters worth of ajax in a timely fashion.
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#THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
#WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!!?!
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Government needs to get involved here. We need public service announcements and training camps and courses. When cops stop you, they should question you if you know how to open the car's door and fine you if you don't. We did it for seat belts, and now we can save even more lives with this!
I suspect they'll settle for a law whereby all car manufacturers must attach a sticker to the door with an arrow pointing to the handle saying "<- Use handle to open door". Ideally, it should use strong adhesive that leaves horrible sticky bits on the door to encourage people not to remove it.
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WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!!?!
Don't worry, @Eldelshell has us covered...
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/why-the-face-little-girl/37100/32?u=boomzilla
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Think of it as evolution in action?
Seems that a few people thought of the Darwin Awards:http://thenewswheel.com/couple-locked-inside-keyless-car-nearly-wins-darwin-award/
Also note that those are from December 2014…
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Aha, and your first link contains a link to an original news story:
Now just imagine these people exposed to....git.
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So you just sat there and waited for death?
If trapped, await "A", rescue, or "B", death. Straightforward enough. [begins idle whistling]
I was once locked in a car, and couldn't open the (passenger side) door, and I can't say it occurred to me to try the driver's side, but then I wasn't actually trying to get out, I only wanted the alarm to stop going off every time I moved slightly. Also it had been actively locked from the outside, not any auto-lock feature. Also I was a child.
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Rear doors normally have child locks; didn't think front passenger doors did though
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I suspect they'll settle for a law whereby all car manufacturers must attach a sticker to the door with an arrow pointing to the handle saying "<- Use handle to open door". Ideally, it should use strong adhesive that leaves horrible sticky bits on the door to encourage people not to remove it.
An evacuation plan for every seat in the car. Like you have in buildings in Europe.
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Slightly relevant quote:
It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.
Seems that a few people thought of the Darwin Awards:
Did they at least get an honorable mention?
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It wasn't a child-lock, my mum was angry with me so when I said I'd wait in the car while she went to the supermarket she took the keys with her and locked the car.
IIRC we didn't have the child-locks on the rear doors anyway, even my little brother was deemed mature enough not to tip himself out of a moving car by that point.
Some family friends happened to visit the same supermarket and park next to us, and there I was with the alarm going off every second minute, highly embarrassing.
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Seems that a few people thought of the Darwin Awards:
That was, indeed, the gist of my comment. It's a quote from a Larry Niven novel, where that saying is on a sign on the edge of the roof of a tall building people would jump off of to commit suicide, in an attempt to prevent them.
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Now just imagine these people exposed to....git
I don't think they could figure out command line. They'd probably just type the command, without pressing enter, and wait in front of the screen for 13 hours for something to happen.
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Seems that a few people thought of the Darwin Awards:
IIRC you need to have removed yourself from the gene pool to qualify for that?
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Even if the door handle didn't work, why wouldn't you (assuming electric locks) just press the unlock button on the driver's door?
Hell, how did they lock the doors in the first place? Car doors usually don't just lock themselves. Not unless you start driving anyway.
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? Car doors usually don't just lock themselves
Relatively modern ones do. My 2004 Kia will (mostly) autolock the doors shortly after the last one's shut, when you get out. (Or if you open the trunk, say, when finished grocery shopping, but then don't open a regular door within 30 seconds or so.)
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just press the unlock button on the driver's door?
I was skeptical too when I first heard this story, but then one of my coworkers told me she was one of those people who ran out of gas when she first started driving because she didn't know you have to refill it.
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one of my coworkers told me she was one of those people who ran out of gas when she first started driving because she didn't know you have to refill it.
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To be fair, she was a teenager, and apparently she hadn't ever seen her dad gas up the car before. I've heard that happens. She told me he apologized for not explaining to her they need to be filled.
Or I guess she could've been trolling me.
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My aunt claims when she worked at a bank she met people who were really confused how they had overdrawn their account when they still had checks in their checkbook.
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Oh, that makes sense.
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To be fair, she was a teenager, and apparently she hadn't ever seen her dad gas up the car before
Being a petrolhead, I think I always knew cars need refuelling; helps when you've seen the parents do it hundreds of times during your childhood. Plus, IIRC, on one of my driving lessons, I filled up the car myself
@Yamikuronue said:My aunt claims when she worked at a bank she met people who were really confused how they had overdrawn their account when they still had checks in their checkbook.
I refer you to the facepalm image four posts up ;)
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IIRC you need to have removed yourself from the gene pool to qualify for that?
Yes, this would just be an honourable mention. Both JBert's links said nearly wins Darwin award.
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Did she never wonder what gas stations were for?Also known as filling stations, fuelling stations, garages, gasbars, petrol bunks, petrol pumps, petrol garages, petrol stations, service stations, services or servos. Courtesy of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
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I... just... excuse me a minute...
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Did she never wonder what gas stations were for?
If you never stopped at one, why would you know what they are for?
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That aside, if you were a new driver, why would you just ignore the "ping" sound and the light going on? Is that part of driver's ed now, "just ignore when you get lights on the dashboard. Low oil pressure? Pfft! Who cares!"
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That aside, if you were a new driver, why would you just ignore the "ping" sound and the light going on?
This was something that happened approximately 30 years ago. The car probably didn't have anything like that.
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Mid-80s cars did have low fuel warning lights though…
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This was something that happened approximately 30 years ago. The car probably didn't have anything like that.
What kind of cheap-ass car are we talking about? That was a standard feature in the 70s, and not even the late 70s.
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What kind of cheap-ass car are we talking about?
I don't know, I wasn't there. I'm just repeating the story. I didn't expect a bloody Spanish Inquisition!
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I didn't expect a bloody Spanish Inquisition!
Did you not get the 30 days notice then?
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Did you not get the 30 days notice then?
Considering it hasn't been 30 days yet, no.
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I didn't expect a bloody Spanish Inquisition!
Noone expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, fear and surprise, ...
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Government needs to get involved here.
I initially went into shock here, then it dawned on me that you were continuing the joke.
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I've since been shown that I could have opened the door manually with the door handle
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
WON'T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!!?!
2 words: child locks.
Rear doors normally have child locks; didn't think front passenger doors did though
Hanzo'd.
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I initially went into shock here, then it dawned on me that you were continuing the joke.
You could always claim it was a case of Poe's Law.
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Nevermind the door handle WTF. Why were they unconscious or dying? It seems highly implausible. This sounds like a troll.