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.