Safer?
NCRedLine said:
I think it's stupid not to have a lock button by the window buttons. I know it is supposed to be safer if your doors are locked if your in a wreck but, I wonder if there is a way to disable the locks from locking when you move?
I think I have heard that - about supposedly safer - but is that true or just a myth? Seems that having the door unlocked would allow you to be resuced more easily - of course if you have an accident bad enough to trap you in your car I doubt the doors locked or unlocked woudl make much difference. Seems that doors locked would have more to do with not getting car-jacked, or if some bumped into you on purpose in order to commit some further crime against you.
I prefer cars that let the driver decide these things. Auto-matic seatbelts - no thanks, nearly got choked by one while working on a car and leaning out the driver door. Auto-matic door locks - no thanks, I'll decide when I want to lock my doors thank you. Although my Honda will lock the doors after a monute if you unlock them with the remote then do not open the drivers door and (I think) will lock the doors if you shut off the car, close all the doors, and leave it for a couple minutes. Which is not bad, unless you set your keys down inside the car, buckle your kid into the backseat, close the door then walk around to get in the driver door only to find it locked (which has not yet happened to me, but it could, but I learned never to close a door or the trunk unless I have my keys in hand after accidentally locking them in the trunk at an amusement park only to discover them missing after having spent the entire day in the park).
Actually this is related to the Automatic vs Manual Transmission - no matter how well designed the automatic system is - you cannot possibly build it and or program it to account for all possible combinations of circumstances that every customer will encounter through the life of the product.
And this applies not only to cars - a software program that I use for work every day has automatic features designed into it and I told the developers during the beta-testing phase that automatic features are okay so long as you can either guarantee that they will function correctly 100% of the time or you can provide a manual work around to allow more experienced users to generate the proper output when the automatic function is not working correctly.