He had enough time to call 911! WTF was he thinking? Maybe he should have been thinking about stopping the car before getting on his phone.
That article offer no other suggestion of a problem other than the floor mats period. They talk about the push button start, but if that had happened in a Nissan Altima, a Mazda RX-8, a Prius, a Honda S2000, or any other number of cars that don't require a key to be inserted then they would have been blamed for having a complex system. The floor mats just pointed out that cars are getting to technical and that maybe simple is better.
I'll take a normal key and no keyless entry, and key locks on all 4 doors any day. Less shit to fail in my mind.