Are your car doors locked when driving?

Where did this take place?

I'd rather have automatic headlights on all cars. That would markedly increase everyone's safety rather than dealing with the edge case of carjacking.

When I visit my mother, depending on traffic I take a route that puts me on the surface streets of Detroit for a couple of miles. I try to remember to lock my doors, but I don't stress about it. Other than that, I never lock my doors while I'm driving. I don't live in a third-world hellhole.

You should keep your car doors locked while in it. If one of Detroit's finest Democrats decides to do you harm, he'll have to break glass to do so. Makes the use of your hot lead injector more defensible.

Here in sleepy Ann Arbor, it doesn't seem worth it. The college students are so weak, all I have to do is make a mean face at them. (Of course, that's assault.)

At 9 am when I'm traversing Davison Ave., they're all sleeping it off.

I don't carry.

Usually this feature can be disabled through the menu - along with the other annoying things - like horn chirps for your door locking, etc. The one annoying feature on my newest car cannot be disabled as a default - the engine Stop-Start - it must be disabled with the push-button upon every start-up. I've heard that the dealer can't even disable it but I haven't confirmed that fact. I might be forced to try some internet hack or after-market device eventually. John T.

Happens in nice neighborhoods too.

Annual number The National Insurance Crime Bureau estimates that around 35,000 carjackings occur in the US each year. Carjacking rate In 2021, the rate of carjacking for people aged 16 and older was 0.12 per 1,000 people.

My car has a couple of options on the door locks, but I do want them locked.

As for the ISG, correct, the dealer cannot disable it as he would be violating Federal EPA laws. For some cars, you can buy a wire with the control. Just pop off the cover plate, pull out the switch and connect the accessory between. Other have jammed the button in place with a bread clip or toothpicks.

Wife's '14 Dorento auto locks. So fit the '12 Taurus and the '96 Mystique - and the '88 New Yorker. On the other hand my '96 Ranger has manual locksand winfowsAutomatic headlight on the Kia and the Taurus - not on the Ranger - but being Canadian they ALL have DRL (front lights only on any time it is in gear)

Oh, here's one in my county:

My 2004 Highlander doesn't, and neither does my husband's 2008 FJ Cruiser. Neither one has any fancy stuff. Power windows and door locks are about it.

I had a car (can't remember which one) that had sensors which turned on the headlights when they thought it was dark out. I miss that feature. I just leave my headlights on all the time now; they go out when I shut off the engine and open the door.

I'll probably look for something like this device :

DRLs? I've got mixed feelings. Bikes have had always on headlights for years and it does help them to stand out in traffic. DRLs negate that.

I got stopped one night at dusk. It was still light enough I hadn't turned on the headlights. The cop saw headlights and no taillights and assumed the taillights were defective.

I'm a long way from a hellhole. I suppose it's possible but given the car I drive that doesn't have the easiest egress, the shoulder seat belt, and the Kabar on the shift console, I think the carjacker might be experiencing life threatening blood loss before dragging me out.

The knife isn't about carjackers; if I want to leave the car in a hurry I don't want to deal with a possibly jammed up seat belt or door with no way to break out a window. There's a reason first responders carry tools to deal with those problems.

My current car doesn't do that but it does handle the high beams. It is very effective and dims the lights when I'm overtaking a vehicle at about the same time I would have manually. The only glitch is it will dim the lights if there are a lot of reflective signs like in tight corners. That's a new feature I like.

The first time I had a rental where the lights stay on for 30 seconds or so after you leave the car I was confused. That must have been 40 years ago but the feature doesn't seem to have had universal appeal.

Not so much when I'm driving but that feature drives me crazy if I'm walking. For me, an engine turning off at a stop sign or light is not a Good Thing and is usually followed by an attempt to push the dead car out of the way.

My parents always locked the doors. I do believe it was to keep us kids from falling out.

My last few cars do that too. The only problem is when I park and walk about to the other side to get something off the seat, the door is locked. I have to stop and press the fob button twice, and that is such a burden.

When I was a taxi driver 50+ years ago, twice someone tried to get in the cab when he shouldn't have. Once I was empty and going back to the garage and the Off Duty sign on the sunvisor was down, The other time there was a woman in a the back seat. Both times I drove away as they reached for the door handle. I don't know if they had their hand on the handle or not yet, but no one screamed. That's my plan for future highjackers but I don't know that it would work.

I've complained about this before. My 2005 toyota solara has a sensor on the dash that turns on the headlights and dash lights when it thinks it's dark out. I can fool it by putting something dark and opaque over the sensor, like a magazine or electric tape.

But it doesn't turn on the light for the clock, the distance to empty etc. or the outdoor temperature. That turns on automatically when it's dark out but that can be 30 seconds after the headlights do, and covering the sensor has no effect on it.

There is a second sensor but that's to make the AC work harder when it's sunny out, not just hot.

I took the cluster out** and apart and tried hot wiring it, but coudln't make the light go on. I even ran some new wires down behind the dash in case I think of something else to try.

I stop people with cars like mine and ask to check their lights. Two people have let me do that, but then I forget the results. I think theirs work right and mine don't. I've though about buying another cluster off ebay, but maybe it's the computer that's in charge and the cluster isn't broken. Plus I don't want to take more chunks out of my dash.

Oh yeah, it's because I can't read those gauges during the day, only at night.

Big running lights.

All of this is reason not to buy a cheap model. Better a used car for an expensive model that has all these doodads, like turning off the lights. I think some cars still don't even buzz when you leave them on.

I don't want all those doodads.

Speaking of laws, I finally took out the fusebox, found the buzzer that says when my seatbelt is not on, and crushed it to death. I so wish I'd done that earlier. I wear my seatbelt so that I don't die, but there were lots of times the buzzing was annoying, like while cleaning the door threashold, etc. while listening to the car radio.

You just said how your car turns its headlights off when you turn off the car.