Kia Sorento 2023 Owner's Manual page 150

Features of your vehicle
rear door will not open if the inner door
handle is pulled.
To lock the child safety lock, insert a key
(or screwdriver) into the hole and turn it
to the lock position.
To allow a rear door to be opened from
inside the vehicle, unlock the child safety
lock.
To open the rear door, pull the outside
door handle (2).
WARNING
Rear door locks
If children accidentally open the rear
doors while the vehicle is in motion, they
could fall out and be severely injured or
killed. To prevent children from opening
the rear doors from the inside, the rear
door safety locks should be used when-
ever children are in the vehicle.
WARNING
僅 The system does not detect every
obstacle approaching the vehicle exit.
僅 The driver and passenger are respon-
sible for the accident occurred while
exiting the vehicle. Always check the
surrounding before you exit the vehi-
cle.
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Electronic child safety lock sys-
tem (if equipped)
If you push the electronic child safety
lock switch and the indicator appears,
rear passengers cannot open the rear
door from inside the vehicle.
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To cancel the electronic child safety lock,
push the electronic child safety lock
switch one more time and then the indi-
cator turns off.
Safe Exit Assist is operated when the
electronic child safety lock is activated
and SEA is selected in the cluster. How-
ever, SEA does not automatically acti-
vate the electronic child safety lock
system.
The electronic child safety lock is always
on when the ENGINE START/STOP but-
ton is in the ON and for approximately 3
minutes after the engine is turned off.
If your vehicle is equipped with the Elec-
tronic child safety lock, the Child-protec-
tor rear door locks, which are manually
operated, are not provided.
If electronic child safety lock is activated,
rear passenger cannot open or close the
rear window also. For more details, refer
to "Windows" on page 5-36.
Door locks