Indeed, it is a really really good idea to becomw familiar with "Park Release".
I'm no expert, but I think the issue is if you are in the Jeep and put it in neutral, once the door is open (or if the door is open when you move it to neutral) the Jeep in its infinite wisdom automatically puts itself in Park regardless of what the shifter says. This is extraordinarily annoying to people who (a) go through car washes where the car goes through by itself, like AutoBell, and (b) people like me who sometimes back up with the door open to adjust parking. GRRRRRR.
It won't go into Auto Park if it isn't running. It also won't do it if you go into neutral. It's been years since I went through a car wash that puts you through on a rail, but I never put an automatic into neutral for them. You put it into park and let the car wash do its thing. On a manual, you leave it in neutral.
This is what we get when kids started eating Tide Pods...
That's incorrect. Unless you want your vehicle drug through a carwash without the drive wheels spinning freely. Your "refresher" video clearly shows the wheels spinning as the vehicle goes through the machine. Put your vehicle in park when you do not want it to move, put it in neutral when you do.
A bit more research shows that there are in fact both types of car washes. I've rarely used an automatic car wash but definitely remember leaving vehicles in park in them.
