The door handles still work from the inside, they mechanically unlock the door unconditionally, meaning nobody can be trapped inside even by manually locking the doors.
The exception is if you flip the "child safety" switch which disconnects the inside door handle of the rear doors.
No? My Honda Civic from 2016 certainly does not.
Mine is a cheaper, european model, which if you are willing to pay for it, of course have all the fancy stuff like keyless ignition, auto door locks, auto high beam system, security systems etc as addons to the standard model.
I'm not that rich so..
Yeah, and I would always disable that feature. Perhaps that was wrong to do, and now that I don't have a choice it's actually safer for me and my passengers.
No, there was a rash of carjackings in the 1990s. It was where someone would walk up to a car stopped at an intersection and open the door.
By all means let's increase common risk severity for everyone in order to demonstrate we're doing something about a rare tail risk. /s
It prevents children from exiting the car before an adult can ensure it is safe to do so. Mostly to prevent the child getting run over by a passing car, or dooring a passing bicycle. If you don't like it you can just not enable it.
Actually, no - at least not slow by my definition.
You’d have to drive over 130km/h, this is when you need some serious force to open the door more than maybe 10-20cm - but anything slower than that, it’s still pretty easy, certainly easy enough for a kid to open the door wide enough to fall out or get in serious trouble..
Source: 18 year old stupid me and buddies, doing stuff like opening driving cars doors, going over 100km/h
It's the cars where things constantly go wrong that you should avoid. Jags + Land Rovers have those reputations in the UK.
The car was entirely capable of continuing to operate normally, but the operator is not trusted by BMW. Their ecosystem locks out the owner from easily maintaining their car as well, which made even more painful as I had no trouble identifying and sourcing a new module.
I had to guess, I'd guess you aren't a parent or spend much time interacting with children :)
Also, auto-lock reduces theft and carjacking risk, which is nice.
I'm talking about child locks, not auto-lock. Locking the door from the inside. A commenter above suggests that it's to stop the little idiots from popping out into the middle of the street .7845 seconds after I put it in park. That actually makes some sense.
There can be more than one valid reason for a thing.
There is no mechanical lock I can pull on, just a push button with a light to indicate that the door is locked. I hate this car.