We’ll admit, driving an electric car is slightly different from a regular gasoline-powered vehicle, but the premise is the same. Put it into gear, steer it and use the pedals. That was too much for one would-be carjacker in Texas, though.
A local report published by The Statesman in Austin, Texas, claims a thief was unable to steal a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV because he didn’t know how to drive it. We’ve heard of manual transmissions thwarting thefts, but this is new.
According to the report published last Tuesday, the carjacker approached the driver at a stop sign and demanded he get out of the car. When the driver began to roll his window up, the carjacker smashed the window and wrestled the driver out of the car. The owner backed off noting he “did not want to die over a car.”
What isn’t clear is what the criminal had trouble with. It’s unknown if he actually couldn’t get the car to accelerate or if something else stopped him from taking off. Luckily, a good samaritan came to help the driver, armed with a machete, no less. When the carjacker saw the machete, he ran from the Bolt EV, but the witness chased him until police arrived.
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Not sure what the malfunction was other than stupidity..
I drove one of these the other day and there really was no real need for instruction to drive it.
The only real adjustment is the one pedal mode and if you have ever driven a golf cart it was nothing new.
Just a Darwin Award Nominee.
You have to love it when you get rescued by a guy with a Machete.
Simple: no key necessary as long as the remote is in your pocket. Get out of the car and someone else gets in, and the car is undrivable. Nothing mysterious there. Nothing inept about the thief.
Yep just like any other push button start.
About as worthy of a Darwin as the GM exec trying to show off a Bolt before they were in production, but couldn’t start it…because it won’t start when it’s plugged in. If I remember correctly, he had to be rescued by a more evolved, albeit lower paid engineer.
This is most likely the correct answer, but HA-HA anyway. Karma is a b!tch! My mommy taught me me that it’s not nice to take things that don’t belong to me;-). Work for it like the rest of us, scumbag.
…not even remotely!
(Sorry…couldn’t help myself.)
Well if the driver had the fob with him after the thief kicked him out the car wouldn’t run or maybe it was that corny shifter