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I'm not sold at all on the push button start thing.
Camaro club meeting and members show up in their new Corvette. Showing off some of the features like how the car "wakes" up when either of them approach it with their fob, unlocks doors, lights gauges, personalized greeting on the screen, etc. Someone else is sitting in the car while owner standing near. Person sitting in car wonders if it will start when he pushes the button and sure enough, if either owner is nearby with their fob it fires right up, don't think the owner appreciated that much. A little while later I see male owner walking around car looking confused. Walks across the room and sets fob down, walks back to car, walks away, etc. Muttering something about the car not going to "sleep." Finally wife pipes up and says, "Oh, my keys are in my purse and the purse is in the car, is that doing it?" Dohhh!!! Sure enough, at that point anyone could have fired it up and driven away. Seems like a PITA to me. I would think that there would be some way to temporarily disable it, not very convenient though.
So when they are at a car show better be damn sure no one leaves the keys nearby or in the car for that matter. It does have a key though, and there is one, ONE key slot in a new Corvette. Know where it is? On the horizontal surface just above the license plate. You see if you don't drive it too often and everytime you get near it with a fob it wakes up, it can drain the battery and the keyless doors won't unlock. At this point you'd have to insert key above license plate and unlock the hatch, and find the hidden door release inside the car to get in it. IMO that is certainly one "convenience" I could do without.
Mike L.
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