Locked-In

[dal]

Anyone else get locked in their ME. I hopped in the back seat to look for something, and to my surprise, I could not unlock the door—no big, figured it was a child lock—so I tried the other door, nope, still locked in, so I climbed up to the passenger seat, nothing, leaned over to the driver door, and that was it, the Mach freaked out, alarms began blaring of course outside my bank that was still closed, all being recorded—awkward!

I'm going to do a search and see what I come up with, but I'm not going to complain. I was glad an actual crook would be locked in.

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[VaporTrails]

That is an interesting logic failure! I’m guessing the MME lost your key signal and locked the car. Were you using only PaaK? I could see something like that happening with PaaK.

I’ve had PaaK fail when a family member accidentally turned off Bluetooth in the car. It took me some time to figure out what happened.

 

[RickMachE]

Anyone else get locked in their ME. I hopped in the back seat to look for something, and to my surprise, I could not unlock the door—no big, figured it was a child lock—so I tried the other door, nope, still locked in, so I climbed up to the passenger seat, nothing, leaned over to the driver door, and that was it, the Mach freaked out, alarms began blaring of course outside my bank that was still closed, all being recorded—awkward!

I'm going to do a search and see what I come up with, but I'm not going to complain. I was glad an actual crook would be locked in.

Pull handle twice.

 

[generaltso]

I could not unlock the door—no big, figured it was a child lock—so I tried the other door, nope, still locked in

The child lock applies to both back doors at the same time.

 

[Chris D]

Your Mach E is possessive.
It just wanted to keep you close to it. Probably an AI module that started to feel emotionally attached to you.
Next is engagement, marriage and little machéééé kids.

Tread carefully. Contraception may be the cautious approach... .

 

[JohnFoxeSheets]

There is a setting called Switch Inhibit to prevent the doors from being opened from the inside when the car is locked externally. If you were either using Paak and it failed, or a fob and the battery died, such a scenario is theoretically possible. And of course eventually the motion sensors kicked in and caused the alarm.

(Admittedly I'm grasping at straws)

Oh, and there is no mention of it in the 2022 Mach E manual ?

 

[RickMachE]

I believe pulling handle twice overrides that.

 

[generaltso]

I believe pulling handle twice overrides that.

Yeah, Switch Inhibit just disables the power door lock button. Pulling the rear door handle twice should still manually unlock the door. But that won’t override the child lock if it’s enabled. That doesn’t explain the alarm going off though. Must have been a combination of things.

 

[dal]

Hmm, never heard of Switch Inhibit...interesting. I keep learning new things about this possessive car. But I did yank on those door handles like a maniac, and nothing. All four were locked. I'd just enabled Paak for the first time two hours earlier so maybe this was the issue after all.

 

[Mach-Lee]

Hmm, never heard of Switch Inhibit...interesting. I keep learning new things about this possessive car. But I did yank on those door handles like a maniac, and nothing. All four were locked. I'd just enabled Paak for the first time two hours earlier so maybe this was the issue after all.

Mach-E does have something called double locking, although that's advertised more so in the UK. Not sure how you were able to run into that without the car alarm going off?

 

[Jimrpa]

Pull handle twice.

This is the way. The front door handles have a mechanical failsafe.

 

[JohnFoxeSheets]

Yeah, Switch Inhibit just disables the power door lock button. Pulling the rear door handle twice should still manually unlock the door. But that won’t override the child lock if it’s enabled. That doesn’t explain the alarm going off though. Must have been a combination of things.

Kinda a silly feature then. I had thought the purpose was to make it more difficult for steal the car (or stuff in the car) since breaking a window wouldn't give access to opening the doors, but I guess not...

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