I was loading groceries into the trunk and used the manual button at the rear. It seemed to snag a bit so I pressed it twice. Loaded the groceries and while taking the cart back into the store I noticed the hood was ajar. I triggered the release latch and closed the hood. Is there some secret handshake between the trunk release and the hood? I haven't opened the hood twice in 6 months so not sure what happened.

Seems unrelated. I tried to do what I think you did and the hood just laughed at me. Nothing. Still begs the question as to how your hood was triggered.

Agree, it doesn't make sense but I would like to know how it happened. Seems irrelevant, but the day before I had gotten the car back from the dealer after the windshield replacement and 10K service. There is no way they or I would not have noticed the hood ajar.

Also, if I hadn't gone back to the store to return the cart and not noticed the hood ajar, would the car have started in that condition; or at least had significant visual warnings pop up? I am not aware of a software way to open the hood; I think it's just the below dash switch. The key fob was in my pocket, the handles popped out, and I triggered the below trunk switch: then hood ajar. Just curious, may see what happens if I try to start the car with the hood ajar but not fully released.

I inadvertently drove with the hood slightly ajar. I had done some thing in the engine bay, I forget what, and slammed the hood shut. The hood does require a fair amount of pressure on both sides at the front over the latches to close it securely. I then drove around for a while and when I went over a very strong bump in the road, a light came on in the dash that said that the hood was either open or a jar or something. It was both an icon and wording. Nothing was noticeable at the hood from inside the car. A friend of mine was riding shotgun and he couldn’t see anything coming up on his side either. A minute or two later we pulled over and on one side, the hood was ever so slightly up. Something that you almost had to feel to notice. So I popped the hood open all the way then we both closed it securely, and there was no subsequent alert.

Just to close this issue out: the top of my size 14 shoe caught the hood release yesterday getting out from behind the wheel and popping the hood. Mystery solved with a boring analog explanation.