Lol.

Which is 158 F😱

What and nobody else noticed that it was more than 60 degrees higher than the highest recorded temperature?

Seriously.

Glad the guy is ok, but this sounds like a tabloid story.

Mr. Pyros says it was over 100℉ inside the car.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2018/09/11/cleveland-cadillac-xlr-roadster/1260451002/

Last time I checked, Washington still measures temperatures in fahrenheit.

Under my theory he would have been cooked like pot roast.

12 hours (or however long it was) at 158 degrees (in or out of the car), he would not be alive to tell his tale.

See post 35 below.

If it's like the one in my car, the handle is made of glow-in-the-dark plastic.

Still, I think that would be over 150 degrees.

Poor guy. I'm glad his neighbor heard him.

70 degree heat?

What am I missing here?

It was too steamy to read at 70 F?

I think there might have been a mistake about temperature. Otherwise It just doesn't make sense.

Because pulling lightly on a handle is just slightly more difficult than pushing a button, but when that button breaks...

You don't hear me complaining

I took my automatic out and replaced it with a manual because...luddite! (and because I wanted to mess around getting greasy).

It's an automatic.

is, well, a tablet, with lined paper and a pencil.

Just kidding.

After her car was totaled a couple of years ago, and we had to look for a new one, she wouldn't even consider an automatic.

(All of our cars were manual, until I had to buy the uncommon model I wanted used (they stopped making it) - and no manual ones were on the market. Then my spouse switched. So the lone holdout is our daughter. (Although, if I have the option on my next car, it will be manual.)

Won’t buy a vehicle without stick shift.

No one else does so boring automatic it is. One of these days I'm going to treat myself.

Mine is like the yellow one in the video:

This particular one has a seat belt cutter. Some versions have a whistle and/or a mini flashlight on them, as well.

Bought one for my husband too. It’s lightweight and gives a little peace of mind.

Got it as a gift. Hope I'll never need to use it.

I call BS. Look, I get that he's likely embarrassed (for several reasons) about this whole episode, but c'mon.

First, he tacitly admits he *didn't even look* in the owner's manual. He spent 14 hours in the car, passing out twice, pissing in a shoe to avoid just wetting himself (and the car seat)... and didn't look up how to open the car door in the owner's manual. Not thinking to look in the owner's manual in the first 5 minutes can be chalked up to panicking. Not having the owner's manual in the car interior is bad planning. But supposedly having access to is but not TRYING to read it... for 14 hours? What... were... you... thinking????

Secondly, there is no way in hell the car interior was so steamy you *can't read* a piece of paper/book that you are holding in your hand. Not in a closed system like a car interior at stable temperatures and pressures. It may have been very humid, but the condensing humidity would gather on the surfaces, not be airborne. Say you didn't have your reading glasses. That I'd buy. Don't give me this "too steamy" business.

I call dumbassery or more likely, lawsuitery.

I make it a point to put the book back, or better yet, just read the manual online.

That being said, this story stinks. Cadillacs don't have standard, easily accessible auto lock/unlock buttons like every other car?! Sounds like a huge security risk. Dumb and dangerous design!

I suppose I could keep it in the trunk, but it wouldn't do me a whole lot of good there. One thing though, I did read it. All of it. I'm kind of compulsive about that. I read all of the inserts in all meds and stuff like that, too.

Of course the car has a manual lock/unlock mechanism. They all do. My guess is that it just looks different from what he's familiar with and he didn't recognize it.

It’s ridiculous that not being able to read the small print could have killed me if I were in his situation, but it would have.

From https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2018/09/11/cleveland-cadillac-xlr-roadster/1260451002/

I take it in the house with me, and read the damned thing. I'm always surprised by some feature or operation I didn't know about. With used cars, if the manual is missing, a search on ebay will turn one up right away for most cars.

On another note, though, the increasing complexity of even the most common features in cars is a little troubling to me. I don't actually want a car that asks me to push a button to open the door. If there's a button for that, the electronics or electrical component that actually pulls the lever will fail at some point. I don't need to reduce my effort in opening the door to that degree. That doesn't seem to be a desirable feature at all.

Still, I would have learned about the manual lever next to the seat when I read the manual. I always learn things I wouldn't know by doing that. Things like the nuances of the cruise control system, which has features most people never learn about.

These days, most cars also have a display of some sort on the dash, either touch screen or with a bunch of buttons. Most people never really learn how to use all the features of that display. They never read the owner's manual.

For me, learning as much as possible about a vehicle I own is something I want to do as soon as I can.

Beep, beep,beep --Beeeep, beeeep, beeeep -- Beep, beep beep.

showed up last week. 2 guys were going to push it out of the way, but it was in Park and steering wheel was locked. Luckily, one of them knew there was a manual override for the gear shift and a way to unlock the wheel. I've had the car for 4 years and didn't know.

That is the only "no deal" requirement that I have.

If I have a relative who is a child on my car, I don't want that person to be having to figure out how to get out of the car in case I am unconscious and the car has a severe danger going on. Sounds ridiculous, but stuff like that happens.

and breaks windows easily.

He did not want to damage his car.

If nothing else he could kick out the side window.

But I guess maybe some people just freeze.

rather than smash windows

Break the friggin window if in a panic. He tried? He may say he did, but probably didn't.

I have a 2002 Saturn. The front seat doors have automatic locks that can be manually pulled up to unlock.