Can you lock your Smart Key in your Prius? YES!

Here is how one of my customers did so...
1) Drop your Smart Key in the car.
2) Open the rear hatch, then close it, BUT only partly closed! Just until it latches, but still leaves the "door ajar" light on.
3) Lock the doors using the lock switch on the master window switch or the passenger door near the window switch.
4) Close the doors.

Here is why the doors will lock: The body ECU will determine that one door (the rear hatch) remains open. It will allow you to lock the doors and close them. ordinarily, when the doors are locked then closed, if then ECU detects a key inside the car, but none outside, the doors will automatically unlock accompanied by two beeps. In the case listed above, the ECU determines that a door remains open.

How do you retrieve your key? Step to the rear hatch and press down. Once the switch is closed, the ECU detects the anomaly and unlocks the doors.

Was my customer attempting to discover this fact? No. Did they work hard to discover it? I hope not. Did it take me moment or two to figure out what they had unwittingly accomplished? (sad sigh) Yes.....

It took me almost ten minutes to duplicate the event and verify that the car was functioning normally.

Thank you for allowing me to vent my frustrations....