1/25/2024 0 Comments Plastic mind lock and unloadCorrespondingly, the car unlocks / locks as you approach / leave the vehicle respectively. You can just use your phone to unlock the car and drive off. This feature allows 2 phones to be digital keys and you don’t need a physical key to drive the car. The MG Astor and the Hector facelift (2023) come with a Bluetooth-enabled sharable digital key feature. For instance, BYD Atto 3 has an NFC key card that you can have in your wallet to unlock the car. However, I also believe with modern cars, we are seeing new ways to replace the typical key fob to lock/unlock the car and new solutions will come with time. Even the Venue manual repeats multiple times that the boot will lock itself automatically after 30 seconds unless it’s open. It’s just assumed that car owners should be careful. When it comes to locking mechanisms and their logic, and as far as manufacturers go, the primary goal will never be to prevent a lockout. Mods may merge this particular post, if required. And another about how to carry spare key-fobs with proximity sensors. Note to the mods: There is another topic in the forum about such lock-out scenarios, where the key is inside the car. What might be a best logic for the boot? Boot lock should be independent of central lock or not? What could have been be the soft/hard logic that could have prevented my unfortunate incident above? Others: Luxury cars might have more sophisticated logic, that I do not know about. The lock should have been prevented if the key was detected inside. In the Venue the car gets locked even if the key is inside. This is convenient feature for grocery shopping, but it is also true that the car gets locked back when you close the boot, without you pressing anything. That means, the boot is unlocked independently if the key-fob is nearby, while the other doors remain locked. Type 5: Proximity sensor based independent boot unlock. ![]() Similarly boot is locked along with the central lock. Because the boot is unlocked only if the central lock is unlocked. Boot door is part of the central locking system. Type 4: Contains external button/lever at the boot door, but no key hole or any other direct way to unlock the boot independently. Type 3: Dedicated button/function for boot unlock in the remote. Car can get locked with the key inside (similar to my incident, but less probable, because you need to have the key in your hand to unlock the boot in the first place). However, boot door is independent of central lock, and hence not lock-out proof. Type 2: Contains external keyhole at the boot door. Because to open the boot, either the car as a whole has to be unlocked, or someone has to be inside. You cannot get locked out here (unless you circumvent the central lock). Usually seen in budget cars with/without central locking. Only way to open is using the lever at the base of the driver's seat. Type 1: No external mechanism to open the boot. Let us see which boot is better at preventing such incidents: There was the option of unlocking through Bluelink, but my phone was in the back pack, too!Īfter coming back to my city, I have looked around a little, and seen the following types of mechanical/electronic/software logic for boot door lock-unlock in common modern cars. finally after futile trial of some common old-school methods for some hours we had to break a glass, to rescue the key-fob from my backpack. The car did not detect that the key-fob is inside, and locked me out on a remote land with no sign of help. But I was pretty tired from the trek, and these things escaped my mind. It was already in my knowledge that the boot door of Hyundai Venue gets locked/unlocked independently if the key-fob is nearby. The car got locked with the key inside the backpack. Car indicators blinked showing that it is locked. Wiped my face, and then put back the towel along with my backpack inside the boot. I pressed the boot door button, and the boot opened without a fuss. By 5:30 in the evening, I returned from the trek, exhausted, finally relieved at the prospect of resting in the comfort of the car. I carefully placed the car key inside my trekking backpack, and started climbing. I drove till the last motorable road, and then I parked and locked my car (Venue SX+ DCT) at the base camp for the trek. I had gone for a trek to a remote hilly part of the country, some 350-400 kms away from the city, a place where the nearest bazaar is a minimum one hour drive away.
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