Too much crime-drama television?
Implying that you wouldn't ever do anything yourself to avoid a crash, or at least do something to mitigate the consequences?
If that's true, then the mfrs are caving to pressure from third parties with an agenda of their own (which includes their continued employment). That's not the same thing as responding to independent consumer demand.
Funny, yes. However if that is a dig at what I said, I'm being realistic. Like I said, I'm not saying park the car in the garage and never start it so it never wears out, I'm saying, let's minimize UNNECESSARY wear. I drive my car with the full understanding that it is causing wear, but it is USEFUL (and quite fun) wear. Locking my doors when I park it, is also useful. Locking my doors every time I reach a certain speed is useless wear. If I want the damn doors locked (such as driving through Detroit) I will lock them my damn self, and along with that, make sure there is one in the pipe of my Glock 9mm (which there always is, no point in carrying if you have to waste time jacking a round into the chamber before it is able to fire)...
I fail to see how a locked door has any more structural integrity than an unlocked door. It's not like locking the door moves large pieces of steel to a new location in the door emulating door bars on a race car cage. All it does is keep the outside handle from opening the door, which is nothing more than changing the position of some tiny little linkage inside the latch mechanism, which is a moot point if the doors automatically unlock in the event of a crash.
And how am I being treated like a pre-school child? I choose to leave the auto lock feature turned on or the ones that came with it off, turn it on.
If that is what floats your boat then sure come on over. I guarantee you will wear out long before the door lock solenoids do. I have chambers at work that use the the same technology to open and close valves for control circuits hundreds of times per minute 24 hours a day 365 days a year. They last for years and years without failing. Even the fuel injectors work on the same principle and they cycle 100s of times per second and almost never have a mechanical failure, plug up yes, but out right fail no. So the two or three times a day your doors auto lock is just not significant in the overall life expectancy of the solenoid.
You still don't seem to get what I'm saying. I have nothing against locking the doors of my car while I'm driving it, as long as it is by my choice if and when that happens. Operating a simple lock button or pushrod is not something that to date I need to have done for me. I ever get so feeble that I then do need to have it done for me, you wouldn't want me out there driving in the first place . . . guaranteed.
Kudos. It takes a big man to admit he can't bullseye a keyhole. Almost makes me want to come out of that closet.
Well if you don't like it just turn the feature off and you can decide with the button on the door. It may not be as easy as a check box in the center display but it is no more complicated than recalibrating the auto up/down for the windows and the process is similar to turning it on/off in all the other vehicles I have owned.
That's the thing though. So far there seems to be no way to disable the feature. That is what is pissing Norm and myself off so much. I don't care if the feature is there, but I want to be able to turn it off if I want. I know other vehicles with it, it was in my 02 Explorer, I turned it off as well. All it took was a combination of key cycles and button presses and it was off. It even tells you how to disable it in the owners manual. So far apparently though for the Mustang that is not the case.
I'm implying that the possibility exists that they could cross the line at such a proximity that you have no time to react. My point was that car jacking is not the sole reason for this feature. In fact I doubt it's even the most important reason in the manufacturers eyes.
This should not be news. Manufacturers have been caving to pressure beyond consumer demand for decades.
