Driveway locking - balance of risk?

[Bendolfc]

Originally Posted by Whiterdesign

My wife has a Juke Nismo RS, which replaced an original Nismo. The first one had auto locking enabled, the second one didn’t. Nissans answer to this is that they had disabled auto locking in all their cars in Europe due to worries about people being trapped in them.
You can still lock it manually yourself but then it’s your problem not Nissans.

Yes, many other brands have removed the feature for European spec models, same with Honda and Mazda. Presumably their options were of the dangerous variety that didn't unlock in a crash. That wouldn't surprise me as when I was considering a Honda, the method to enable it was akin to turn the key to pos 1 then back to 0, unlock the doors 3 times, jump up and down 5 times and turn the key again.

Quite why in a 2018 car such a process is necessary I don't know, even a 2005 S40 has the setting in an easy to use menu, such daftness made me realised that Hondas were stupid.