[jacko15]

Maybe I was not clear in my initial post...I'm not talking about starting the vehicle remotely. I'm wondering, if you start the vehicle normally (by sitting in the drivers seat and having the key fob close-by) and then forget to manually shut off the vehicle (by pressing the push button), I assume that it will continue to run until you actually, manually (by pressing the push button), shut it off? It doesn't matter that you bring the key fob with you when you leave the vehicle...even if the fob is not near the vehicle, since you forgot to shut it off manually, it will just continue to run?

It will continue to run. The Jeep is not absolutely and completely idiot proof. It assumes if you've been able to procure a drivers license, and are able to afford a vehicle as technologically advanced as this, you will also be able to remember to shut the vehicle down before leaving it. Although I've seen people stop their vehicles and get out, not only forgetting to shut them off, but forgetting to take them out of gear, and watch a driverless car motor down the street until it crashed into something. Maybe there needs to be a fail safe in vehicles so they shut down if no one is in the drivers seat. That would be just about completely idiot proof, but a real pain in the butt for everyone else.

 

[jacko15]

you pop off the push button and use your physical key

The '14 doesn't work like that. The button doesn't pop off. Instead, it uses a RFID chip in the fob. Read all about it in that wonderful book, the owner's manual.