Well... if you are talking about safely issues...

Dropping someone of without putting the car into park would be one of them.
The car unlocks the doors when you put it into park.

 

The car unlocks the doors when you put it into park.

Maybe it's a manual transmission?

 

Just shut off the auto-lock option???? Problem solved.

 

Yes, although then you lose the feature of routinely having the doors locked while underway which is considered a key safety feature of new cars, both for security (anti-hijacking) and for crash worthiness - all the crash testing and safety ratings assume the doors are locked.

- Mark

 

Dont think you can have it both ways, Mark...

 

Why not?

I just want the rear doors to unlock when you pull the interior handle, just like the front doors do. Still keep the auto-lock/auto-unlock feature. If Hyundai considers it acceptable for one of the front-seat passengers (even the driver) to unlock the door simply by pulling the door, why not the rear?

- Mark

 

Children

 

The manual unlock button on the door is not child-proof anyways. With auto-lock, if the car is rolling above a certain speed, it's not possible to unlock the doors in front either by pulling the handle or unlocking the door manually. Here is your safety feature.

I guess Hyundai went for the cheaper way on the back doors. The VW Golf is one of the cars that I know allows unlocking any door by pulling the handle twice.

 

Ok then...I'd still stand behind my answer though, because Kids Matter.

Oh, and that's a huge pain in the ass in the front sometimes...stupid HAL cars. In a manual, you have to turn the car off to unlock the doors, so when I drop my wife off I always need to unlock the doors manually...

 

Not sure if the sedan is this way, as well, since I rarely carry any passengers in the back. On occasions where I do, it's usually one of the granddaughters. Obviously, I don't want them having that option.

I guess we Americans have gotten so lazy (and I'm one of them) we can't even get out of a door without help. Maybe an ejector seat like Sean Connery used in Goldfinger will be the next option on the design engineer's drawing board. Still, Mr. Bond was required to push a button for it to function.

I can see it now. Drop the kiddo's off at school, hit the button, and "woosh," up and out they go...

 

Years ago a buddy of mine had an... Oldsmobile, I think, that had swiveling captain's chairs to make getting out of the car easier. I also recall, back in the 50s one of the models having a swing-away steering column for easier exits. We need a hydraulic seat the comes completely out of the car and eases you to the ground.

 

Years ago a buddy of mine had an... Oldsmobile, I think, that had swiveling captain's chairs to make getting out of the car easier.

It was the mid-70's Olds Cutlass and Monte Carlo's that had the swivel bucket seat option. Possibly the Pontiac Grand Prix's. Not sure. Simple operation: Open the door, pull a lever, rotate the seat around, plant your feet, and stand up. They were bee's knees! They became a hot commodity for rod & custom rebuilders. Nothing like a 1932 Ford Victoria with suicide doors, swivel buckets, and a 327 cu. in. power plant. Vroom! :grin:

 

Call me crazy, but I don't know of ANY car that automatically unlocks with the handle for the rear doors.

I know my mom's old suburban didn't have that feature, the old volvo didn't have that, toyota/lexus doesn't...

 

... and my brother's old Mercedes didn't either, and when somebody pulled up the lock themselves in the back seat, it broke the mechanism. It cost him $400, and the tech said it's not made to be manually opened.

I really love the auto lock, myself. I trained my kids to wait until the car was in Park before getting out, and I still use Park. I have a childhood memory, sis was the last one out, and the driver let up on the brake pressure just a tiny bit, and she got a pump on the head for it. Plus, a close friend got rear-ended in the school drop-off zone [where you'd think people would be careful], and was told that having it in park made the difference.

 

Chrysler did it in the late 50's. I believe it was on some DeSoto models. The slide away sterring column was on the Thunderbird. Seems like 61 or 62.

 

In doing more research on this, it appears the current federal standards do not allow a single pull on the rear doors to both unlock and open the door. Most mfgs do what Hyundai has done and require a separate unlocking step. Many of the Euro mfgs meet the standard by requiring a double-pull. Some require double-pulls on all the doors... some only on the rear. I think the Euro system is better, but my original complaint is more one about safety standards than our Hyundais.

I could go on a tirade about safetycrats, but I'll spare you.

- Mark