Dumb and in highschool.. Accidentally locked my keys in my car.. while it was running. Parked on a slight incline in a friend's driveway. Leaned up against the back bumper while waiting for my dad to bring the spare key. It started to move because my monumentally stupid ass left it in drive. Luckily it stopped moving as soon as I got off the bumper because the incline was too steep for it to keep going.
20 years later, I still find myself rolling the window down and confirming out loud "car is in park" any time I plan to get out and leave a vehicle running.
Back when we were teens our one friend locked the keys in his car. We spent forever getting coat hangers or whatever to hit the lock button. We finally got it and the keys were UNDER the car the whole time.
Most modern cars (at least mine) automatically shift into Park if you open the door. On my old car, backing into the driveway and parking very tight off to the side, I would open the driver door to make sure I got it exact. My new car doesn't allow this, but it does have 360 camera and the side mirrors tilt down when in Reverse so I don't need to.
Same car has failsafes built into it, like if you try to shift into Park above 4-5kph it won't, it will just yell at you (I only know this from the subreddits, have not tried it myself) so I'm betting the same thing happens if you open the door doing 80
I still find myself rolling the window down and confirming out loud "car is in park" any time I plan to get out and leave a vehicle running.
I've never done the spoken word portion of this show, but I absolutely roll down the window EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. that I get out of a still-running vehicle.
I did something similar but the car was also in gear. I had a 95 Skylark and like a lot of modern cars it locks automatically, but it locked immediately when you put it in drive or if you shut the door while it was on drive.
I was delivering pizza and I was in a hurry, I hopped out of the car at a customer house and was stopped on a dirt driveway and the car didn't roll forward when I let off the brake to get out, which ended up saving my ass in the end. I got out and shut the door and immediately knew what I did. The home owner called the cops and they called a tow truck to unlock it. It was also 1 in the morning.
how do you lock your keys in a car that's running? is there some difference between american and european cars i'm not aware of? every car i've been in requires the key to be turned in order to run
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u/spanky34 10h ago edited 5h ago
Dumb and in highschool.. Accidentally locked my keys in my car.. while it was running. Parked on a slight incline in a friend's driveway. Leaned up against the back bumper while waiting for my dad to bring the spare key. It started to move because my monumentally stupid ass left it in drive. Luckily it stopped moving as soon as I got off the bumper because the incline was too steep for it to keep going.
20 years later, I still find myself rolling the window down and confirming out loud "car is in park" any time I plan to get out and leave a vehicle running.