It is matter of life and dead. If your car caught fire or accident, you can't come out on time with your blur or semi conscious. It also probably mechanism lock jam after accident. That the door can't be open.

So which is more important to you.

But I can lock it myself.
So that beats the purpose afterall.

My car don't have auto lock. And I drive for 7yrs without a habit of lock the door. It is a Japanese car.

No. You can have a centralize lock at the driver side. The driver can lock/unlock all 4door manually. Not auto. My car is using this function without an auto lock.

Auto lock put you and me in a lazy mode.

Save cost. All new honda models also dont have it anymore since last year. B4 that can set autolock using Honda i-mid.
If not mistaken only KIA sell new models wt auto lock & auto unlock upon impact for all models.

The laws only said cannot have auto lock features wtout auto unlock upon impact (which usually brake base- auto lock).

if let say upon collision, everyone pengsan inside, no auto unlock upon collision, so ambulance come save u, but when arrive, cannot open door, window hard to break, or break liao risk of injuring ppl inside. then have to wait bomba come save ppl. this might be the logic.

autolock is an important safety features too, it's retard to say "hey, dont be lazy. u should lock the door urself becos H brand car dont implement it and local car implement it." just that what ppl are prioritizing in terms of safety, and local car still has autolock feature, with unlock upon collision 

which mean, instead of removing auto lock function they should instead force all new car in Malaysia to be equip with auto unlock upon collision instead.