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Bit of bother last night....
Rich_P:
Aha, what about if the system fails and you're stuck in a car on the middle lane of a motorway with nothing operating on the car?
This is what happened to someone with their Ford Focus. Everything just cut out on the middle lane of the motorway. They rolled to a stop, and the doors remained locked, no ignition, nothing. There was high speed traffic flying past on both sides of the vehicle, and the family was stuck there unable to do anything.
I think the cause was a computer failure. We all should be afraid, very afraid. :shock:
Range Rover Blues:
On the noddy car, sorry micra, you can set the central locking up so that it only opens the driver's door unless you double click the remote. I don't know as much about the keyless ones but I suppose they should prevent this happening if you keep the key in your pocket....
At the end of the day if they shot car thieves then we wouldn't have all this trouble, would we?
I find the Thatcham cattagory PITA alarms to be useless in tis respect too, the only person they inconvenience is the owner. Julie's locks the doors as soon as it starts, so imagine, it's abig car. You start it up and roll forewards to let the passenger in......
So it wnds up being unlocked again and staying that way. I wouldn't mind as much if it waited 'till I was moving.
Range Rover Red:
I have a deep mistrust of all these gizmos that try to be too clever - self-locking cars, automatic wipers and so on. I'd rather be in control myself of locking the doors - what's so difficult about pushing a button?
redneck:
--- Quote from: "Rich_P" ---Aha, what about if the system fails and you're stuck in a car on the middle lane of a motorway with nothing operating on the car?
This is what happened to someone with their Ford Focus. Everything just cut out on the middle lane of the motorway. They rolled to a stop, and the doors remained locked, no ignition, nothing. There was high speed traffic flying past on both sides of the vehicle, and the family was stuck there unable to do anything.
I think the cause was a computer failure. We all should be afraid, very afraid. :shock:
--- End quote ---
Surely they could have just unlocked it with the button on the door :?: does the Focus not have this :?: If the car cannot be opened from inside then it's breaking construction and use regulations is it not :?: I know on my Delica even when the doors have auto locked it's a simple matter of unlocking it by using the manual button.
Littledan:
it sure was cold on tuesday morning riding to work at 5am at -4 :shock:
i was frezzing!!
dan
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