- A man was trapped inside a Corvette C8 after failing to use the manual door release.
- The Corvette’s electronic door poppers didn’t work without the key, trapping the would-be thief.
- Police arrested the man after the owner found him stuck in the Corvette, begging for help.
Imagine walking out to your own vehicle to find another person who you don’t know trapped inside. That’s exactly what happened to Julio Solano in Miami, Florida recently. Here’s the real kicker though. The person inside was simply ignorant of how modern doors with electric actuators work—like those on the Corvette C8.
Solano quickly pulled out his phone and began to record the encounter. “Can I get out?” asked the occupant, later identified as 33-year old Ravesh Rabindranauth. “No, you can’t get out. We’re calling the cops,” the owner of the Vette responded.
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“The car’s electrical components don’t function without the keys, and fortunately, he didn’t know about the manual door release under the seat,” Solano told Local 10 News.
The car in question, a C8 Corvette, has electronic door poppers that activate when a user hits a button inside or outside of the car. Of course, without the key nearby, they don’t work the same. Instead, a person inside of the vehicle can use a manual door release hidden beneath the seat.
Rabindranauth clearly didn’t know about that release and as a result, ended up not just ‘trapped’ in the car but incarcerated later on. Officers arrived shortly after Solano found Rabindranauth and took him into custody. He’s now facing burglary charges associated with the incident.
As of Tuesday, he was still in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond of $2,500. Interestingly, this is far from the first time something like this has happened. Though in most cases, it’s not a criminal but someone who should be aware of the feature that ends up stuck.
Occupants of cars with these types of doors are often ignorant of their design. We’ve reported on several examples of owners, renters, and others who blame the car and its design when the manual door release is literally inches from their fingertips. Often times the manual release is built into the door handle/button area itself. At least in this case, ignorance might have actually helped to catch a criminal rather than ‘trap’ an owner.