Thats a good point. I guess with the doors the way that they are they’re technically always ‘locked’
Although there’s still a physical lock solenoid built into the doors. You can hear it when you lock and unlock the doors from the inside.
Regardless, its pretty rare that you’d be in a situation where the 12v battery was working fine to open the doors and died in the middle of your trip, causing this situation with a pet or a child inside.
There is no backup key to unlock the door. (And even if there was, you’d also need a way to actuate the door handle from the inside as there’s no external door handle).
I imagine this was done for cost savings as they no longer need to cut keys and matching lock cylinders. But it also has the effect of increasing physical security somewhat as picking the door lock is no longer an attack vector.
It literally does. Its better than Tesla 1000x over. If you pull the inside handles halfway, the electric door latches activate and all 4 doors also have a mechanical override if you pull them all the way.
The problem is not with people getting locked IN, its with people getting locked OUT (possibly with a pet or a child inside).
Since there is no external latch override, if the 12v battery dies and the doors happened to be in the “locked” state when that happened and you were inside and opened the door, its possible that when you shut it behind you, you would now be locked out.
But there’s STILL a way to recover from this point if that happens by using an external battery to open the frunk (where the battery is mounted) and ‘jump start’ the car.
So to recap, this would require the following events to happen in order for it to be a problem:
That order of events is exceedingly rare and I don’t think that many people have actually experienced it. I also want to point out that Tesla is even worse because they have exactly the same problem and dont even have manual overrides on the rear doors so you might actually get locked INSIDE as well.
Exactly this. So many of my memories are tied to feelings which is absolutely fantastic for remembering that I’ve been to a place, but not for remembering where that place is, for example.
When I say “I feel like I’ve been here before” I really mean that the feeling itself is familiar.
And its the same when I put stuff away. I remember where tools are because I remember the feeling I had when I put it away and not because I remember the location specifically. It’s a real double edged sword because I can remember very specific details way clearer than most people but I can’t remember generic broad things like “where did you put it”
Death Stranding is how I discovered Low Roar. They’re one of my favorite artists now, although I’m extremely sad they won’t be releasing any more music.
Not being able to hear your surroundings (people shouting, sounds of danger, malfunctioning equipment) is pretty dangerous in a shop. You do you, but I wouldn’t let anyone wear earbuds, especially noise cancelling ones in my shop.
+1 Burnout Paradise is such a great game for just mindlessly driving around. I think I have that entire map memorized in my brain now.
I don’t know if you noticed, but that key isn’t cut. Ford reused the key design from their other vehicles and just left the key blank. It works great as a screwdriver in a pinch though.