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I just want the ability to have the car automatically lock itself everywhere except when I'm home.
Me too. Maybe when they finally enable wifi they can tie it to that. When the car connects to your home wifi you have the option of keeping it unlocked. (needs to be optional for folks who park outside, obviously)
Good idea for me.I just want the ability to have the car automatically lock itself everywhere except when I'm home.
This thread raises an issue I've complained about before: When I park at the grocery store and walk away, the car does not lock while I am in view of it due to the other cars in the lot. One of these days someone's going to get their car stolen by someone who jumps inside before the owner has been gone long enough for it to lock. (I don't know if the car can be driven when the phone is not in it, but your belongings could be stolen.)
That's another advantage of a fob: You get a lock button. With the phone app you have to pull out the phone, unlock the phone, launch the app, find the lock button and press it. With the Prius you just press the button on the door handle (or you can press the button on the fob.)
This whole locking and unlocking thing was obviously not well though out by Tesla in their rush to create a "futuristic" car.
Suggestion: Does the car sense when you touch the handle? If so, they could have it lock when you quickly tap twice on the handle.
Has anybody's car ever not locked when walking away?
Mine never has.
I hate horn honks. People can lock the doors while inside the car. However. A simple beep would work for me. Good idea
No. I don't want to have to look at a device. I want to walk away & know they are locked. If I have to look at my phone, I might as well lock from the phone.
It must be an outdated thing now, but when I grew up, some of the phones we used had the ability to produce sounds, and even pick up sound from the environment around them!
I think there's quite a few notifications they could add, as long as you can toggle them off.Audible walk away lock confirmation is my number one feature request!!
Agree - a chirp or a beep would work well. Not everyone's phones have worked flawlessly with my M3, especially my wife's android phone so it'll be useful to have an audible confirmation that it is locked.
When you say they don't work flawlessly, does that include locking as well as unlocking? Locking is a passive operation, the phone doesn't tell the car to lock, the car locks when it can't sense the phone. I would imagine that a faulty phone might cause the car to lock even when you are nearby, but I don't see how the car can ever fail to lock when you walk away.