I couldn't help it!
It looks like exiting the car and leaving it resting for a while also fixed it. I started driving to work this morning and found the system booted back up like nothing was wrong. Everything seemed to work just fine again. (Good news for anyone googling this issue)
I jumped back into Dev Mode, accessed the Explorer and looked around some more. Found the keyboard and all that and tested some commands. Now I'm just trying to find a way to exit Explorer, but it seems that Suspending Windows is the only way out. (CAD, Home button, plugging a keyboard