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That doesn’t make sense. You can’t lock the car if your key is inside?

So a bad person can just open your door and attack you because you can’t lock your door when your key is inside?

My Camry has incar fob detection and I can definitely lock the car while the fob is inside.

It won't let you press the button on the handle to lock it if the key is inside and you're not, prevents you from locking the keys in the car, mine does the same, the car will beep 3 times if I try to lock it from outside while the key is inside.

If you're also inside, you just press the lock button in the car and it'll lock just fine.

I meant lock the car from the outside, using the door handle.

Thanks for the clarification. Wild to me I didn't know this external lock button was a thing (my car's 16 years old... but I drive a rental a couple times/year...).

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