You may have wondered why your latest 2014 model no longer comes with automatic door locks, a feature which is available in your daughter's Perodua Myvi, bought five years ago.

You may also have been told by your sales advisor that many new cars have had their automatic door lock feature deleted to comply with international safety regulations. As odd as it may sound, your sales advisor's explanation is correct.

Beyond that however, there is another 'real' reason behind the somewhat illogical sounding regulation. Before we explain that, first we need to explain a bit of background behind the change.

Background

In April 2006, Malaysia became a member country of the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29). As such, Malaysia is required to progressively adopt a set of minimum vehicle safety standards, before reaching full compliance by 2015.
The most noticeable change happened in 2013, when the UNECE regulation R94 and R95 pertaining to occupant protection in frontal and side collision was enforced. This typically surrounded the requirements of having dual front airbags, but is not necessarily the case for all cars. We have already covered this in an earlier article Clearing The Confusion On Airbag Fitment Regulations.

This is where the regulation can appear to be a bit illogical for the average Malaysian motorist, who has to deal with the high risks of a carjacking or robbery on a daily basis, and are taught to lock the doors the moment they get inside a car.

http://www.livelifedrive.com/malaysia/news...-t-come-with-it

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Vios got autolock or not?

conclusion is?

lock your car doors manually

thats a safety standard requirement?

Unless the car have features to unlock itself upon collision, it is allowed to have autolock

lock your car doors when stationary, unlock them when car is moving.

same like wearing a seatbelt

except for those automatic seatbelts la

IE, Cerato, Preve.

My 2006 smart forfour have this feature disabled by default. Only by referring to the service manual then only can activate back. My former 2007 Triton don't have this feature. Had to install one outside.

so when i:
1st start the engine
drive for a distance
the door autolock

is this the scenario? i found it to be useful...

I tot this feature was removed bcos some minister or Malaysian bigshot kept getting locked out of his/her own car due to auto lock feature and demanded the car manufacturers to do something about it?

I can see why the people are betting on VW Polos even after the horrendous feedback on VW MY fb page.

This feature is only allowed for new cars, if they have impact sensing unlock. Most new cars will not put this feature, because it will cost more for the BCM module, especially malaysian market. But our proton preve/suprima have auto lock and impact sensing door unlock feature.

I remember last time my satria the central lock kong edi.gila susah.i have to open passenger door.then open my door.then if wanna open boot have to unlock somemore.haha those were the days

Any proton model with bcm have impact sensing unlock

the perrenial problems of owning an old proton.

my dad's saga (the ye olde one) central locking keeps breaking down he doesn't bother fixing them now, and that was 10 years back.

(same wit the power windows. he had them changed to a wind up-down)

Malaysia ke arah kuasa besar!

BLM got? I know for sure exora, preve and suprima have.

I don't quite understand. So now they have removed the auto lock feature, how will it be safer for motorists? What will be the difference between auto lock and manual lock upon collision?