12-20-2014, 04:18 PM
silvarios wrote:
Wait, doesn't the car have manual unlocks in essentially the same place as every other car? Did the couple only recently start driving? Serious question. This isn't so much a question about a new fangled technology passing people by, so much as people never understanding how any of their prior vehicles functioned. Or, possibly are new to driving. Things make sense when you have an institutional memory, if you've never been in a car, maybe not so much.
Those are my thoughts too, even if they've never driven a car, have they ever been a passenger? I knew a whole lot about how to lock and unlock a car door, and lock myself in to keep my siblings out when I was a child, long before ever getting a drivers license.
I do find automatic locking when driving annoying and also prefer that when I unlock with a key, all doors unlock. On some of my cars the factory default was different than that but the behavior was programmable so I changed it to my liking. But when I get a rental car, I usually wind up with lock behavior that I don't like.