A couple of years ago we rented a car from Avis, the car had this autolock
feature. If I remember correctly the car doors locked when I shifted from
park to reverse or drive. What annoyed with this car was when I shifted
back to park the doors did not unlock. If you can lock the doors then you
should also unlock the doors.


"tomb" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:2vaufvF2j02v8U1@uni-berlin.de...
> Not to sidetrack the question, but....
>
> eh wrote:
> | After we bought the 2004 Accord EXL, we found that
> | it misses one important feature: lock the door automatically when
> | the car gets started.
>
> I never understood why anyone would want to lock the doors when the car is
> started or starts moving. What's the reasoning behind this behavior?
>
> TomB (with good old 88 Civic that doesn't lock the doors unless I tell it
> to
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