• teft@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    It’s more to keep you from being carjacked than for accidental door openings.

      • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 day ago

        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.

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          19 hours ago

          the automatic transmission cars ive driven that were similar locked when you took it out of park

      • varyingExpertise@feddit.org
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        2 days ago

        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