"walk-away locking is temporarily suspended for one minute"

[dighn]

There's this little blurb in the owner's manual that I can't seem to understand:

"Note: If all doors are closed and Model 3 was
automatically unlocked by your authenticated
phone, walk-away locking is temporarily
suspended for one minute. If you open a door
within this minute, it will not re-lock until all
the doors are closed and you have walked
away with the authenticated phone."

What exactly is "suspended" in this one minute? The second part seems to just describe what is normal behavior.

 

[jdcollins5]

You have one minute, after closing all doors and walking away, where you can go back and re-open doors before they will lock.

 

[dighn]

In my experience the car always locks as soon as you walk away a few meters. There's no 1 minute window where it doesn't.

 

[Need]

In my experience the car always locks as soon as you walk away a few meters. There's no 1 minute window where it doesn't.

It is less than a min for me. Every morning I would open the passenger door, put my bag in, close the passenger door (timer starts), unplug the charger, hang it up, and by that time the door is locked again. I am pretty sure it takes less than 60 sec to unplug and hang the cord. Also all these time, I was less than a meter from the car.

 

[dighn]

So it sounds like what it's saying is that the car will lock if either a) you walk away or b) after ~1 minute anyway. That makes sense; the language is just confusing to me.

 

[Blue_Model_S]

"If all doors are closed and Model 3 was automatically unlocked by your authenticated
phone..."

This is the key clause. Let's say the car is locked and you walk toward it. It unlocks. Now if you walk away without opening any doors, the car will again lock itself after one minute.

 

[ninpb]

I think that language was meant for the original behavior of walking in proximity to unlock (with phone as key). If u don't get in the car but just walk away, it won't lock for one minute.

They disabled that feature and now require you to pull the handle to unlock.

I only got my car two weeks ago so I never got a chance to try proximity unlock.

 

[dighn]

I think that language was meant for the original behavior of walking in proximity to unlock (with phone as key). If u don't get in the car but just walk away, it won't lock for one minute.

They disabled that feature and now require you to pull the handle to unlock.

I only got my car two weeks ago so I never got a chance to try proximity unlock.

That sounds like it! It's confusing because it doesn't work like that now. I didn't even know that was a feature.