When my g/kids were smaller, I made a little game of it. First showing them the latch and then, one at a time locking them in the trunk, to see if they could get out on their own - they did, quite easily.
I don't know which cars are equipped with the "Passive release system", if any.
Another piece of electronics to jack up the price of your car and to add another point of failure.
The Mob’s gonna HATE THIS ONE!
I’ve always told my kids that there are actually GOOD THINGS that can come from the government...although on balance you just get bad things. For cars, they include collapsable steering columns, padded dashboards, crumple zones, and seat belts (but not air bags), among others.
It’s ok to be suspicious of government, but one still should try to keep an open mind - we’re probably nearing a million lives saved, just from reasonable automobile safety standards.
I showed my sons this. The one on my jetta glows in the dark.
bttt
A classic example of dumb government. People only get put in trunks in the movies, and yet we have a law that there has to be a latch in there on the off chance that some kidnapper is a total idiot.
“Just a reminder or F.Y.I. Show your little ones where this latch is. It could save the life of one of them..”
It was also suggested by some that you show them how to unplug the connector to a tail light, if they are trapped in the trunk of a moving car, and tap the connector to the lamp in the Morse code for S.O.S. That way someone driving behind the car could notice and call police.
Amazing amount of knee-jerk reaction your posting prompted.
I pointed this out to my neighbor a few weeks ago. The one in her car is made of glow-in-the-dark plastic, which I thought was pretty neat.