Helpful Escape Aid

My boring, high mileage little grey car had a nasty encounter with a patch of ice and a culvert a while back.  So I took the insurance check and bought....a different boring high mileage little grey car. 

I am still figuring out where all the buttons and gadgets are, and this morning I discovered a new feature:

This is obviously inside the trunk.  And if I understand it correctly it is a handle I can grab if I am locked in the trunk, possibly by hoodlums.  After pulling on the handle it appears-if things are to scale-that I will then be able to leap roughly six feet high and ten feet out in my first bound to freedom.

It's made of an interesting shade of plastic that I have in the past associated with "glow in the dark" objects.

Maybe I'll try it out.