Most modern cars automatically lock doors when you reach certain speed (like 20km/h). I checked and automatically unlocking door on impact is a separate feature that may or may not be present in a car. So I think you won’t be able to open most modern cars from the outside after a crash. The only difference is that you will open other cars from the inside without issues while in Tesla you have to use other door handle in front seats and it’s really complicated to open them from the back seats. Is that right?
The doors still stay locked when you stop. At least for mine the doors don’t unlock again until you put it park. They just lock when you start moving because the vehicle moving is a good indication that you don’t need the doors unlocked anymore.
That’s all bullshit of course. Cars lock the doors when going above a certain speed for the first time and the airbag control module always sends a crash signal across the various can buses during an airbag deployment event that is used by various other control units for example to unlock the doors or kill the gas pump. My twenty year old Audi had that
That sounds like a design problem that could be solved. At least for the whole doing wholly accidentally, me pulling the door handle because I’m stimming not withstanding.
What I learned about design decisions, especially in IT, is that there’s a reason why things are designed the way they are. Before proposing an entirely new solution to problems that can be seen due to the current design, I’ve learned to try to understand first. Only tech bros will reinvent trains or build Cybertrucks.
Most modern cars automatically lock doors when you reach certain speed (like 20km/h). I checked and automatically unlocking door on impact is a separate feature that may or may not be present in a car. So I think you won’t be able to open most modern cars from the outside after a crash. The only difference is that you will open other cars from the inside without issues while in Tesla you have to use other door handle in front seats and it’s really complicated to open them from the back seats. Is that right?
which is so stupid, who would break in your car at 20kmh?
I always thought the opposite would make much more sense, locking doors when you’re below 10kmh and unlocking once driving
Firefighters always struggle more to open locked doors (duh) as much as I hate those, I don’t think it’s something specific to it.
It’s to prevent you from accidentally opening the door.
It’s more to keep you from being carjacked than for accidental door openings.
yes protect me from being carjacked at speed
The doors still stay locked when you stop. At least for mine the doors don’t unlock again until you put it park. They just lock when you start moving because the vehicle moving is a good indication that you don’t need the doors unlocked anymore.
the automatic transmission cars ive driven that were similar locked when you took it out of park
That’s all bullshit of course. Cars lock the doors when going above a certain speed for the first time and the airbag control module always sends a crash signal across the various can buses during an airbag deployment event that is used by various other control units for example to unlock the doors or kill the gas pump. My twenty year old Audi had that
I still can open the doors from inside, just not from outside
That sounds like a design problem that could be solved. At least for the whole doing wholly accidentally, me pulling the door handle because I’m stimming not withstanding.
What I learned about design decisions, especially in IT, is that there’s a reason why things are designed the way they are. Before proposing an entirely new solution to problems that can be seen due to the current design, I’ve learned to try to understand first. Only tech bros will reinvent trains or build Cybertrucks.
Agreed, I should e specified that I meant old school pull handles for the inside of the car. Like what 90s and early 00s Toyotas had.
Children are a design problem
I guess they don’t lock/unlock constantly because that would be annoying in stop and go traffic.
Also probably really bad for solenoids and locking mechanisms.
I think that’s the big reason. Lots of wear
Yes, they don’t. What good would that be for the intended purpose, e.g. coming to a stop at a red light.
Also they don’t want people to know the lock parts are probably cheap nylon and zinc pot metal designed to crack after 7,000 uses. :o lol