A couple of years ago, an old mate of mine who is a lifelong Leeds United fan saw an opportunity to take in Leeds vs Birmingham City at Elland Road en route to dropping their daughter off at Newcastle Uni for freshers week. The plan was simple; load up the Range Rover, drive from Brighton to Leeds, where he would get out for the match, leaving the missus and the apple of his eye to make their way on up to the toon to unload all of her clobber etc. He would then rejoin them by train for the evening's hostilities.
When they got to Leeds, he hopped out of the car, the wife slid across to the driver's seat, and with a cheery wave drove off.
Just as the game was starting his phone rang. It was his better half, who having stopped for fuel at Durham services, was unable to restart the car.....because the key was still in his pocket. He had to abandon the match, and after a very expensive taxi ride was able to rescue the ladies in his life. The missus did admit that there had been quite an insistent warning light, but as she has always driven German cars she assumed it was just down to shoddy British workmanship, so had ignored it.
I agree that keyless is a solution to a problem I've never been aware of; it's certainly not a feature I want on my cars. At the risk of being called a sexist, however, I can see that for some ladies, finding the keys in one of those bottomless handbags may be a massive and lengthy task which can be easily avoided by a keyless system.
