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These days we have keyless ignition with the added benefit that anyone with an iPad can use your car.
Put auto up/down on only 1 window. Surely it can't be that much of an expensive circuit.
Bizarrely my car has auto down on all 4 windows but only auto up on the drivers
Put auto up/down on only 1 window. Surely it can't be that much of an expensive circuit.
Bizarrely my car has auto down on all 4 windows but only auto up on the drivers
Put auto up/down on only 1 window. Surely it can't be that much of an expensive circuit.
Bizarrely my car has auto down on all 4 windows but only auto up on the drivers
Not bizarre, but due to safety regulations.
Driver's window doesn't need anti-trap because the driver is deemed competent to press the button to back the window off if they start to trap their head/neck/arm/whatever during one-touch closure.
Passenger windows need anti-trap protection for one-touch close. There have been deaths, e.g. child with head out of window kneeling/standing on window switch so the window closes across their neck.
The expense for the passenger windows is in having current or movement sensing for the window motor or sensors in the window seal.
Quite likely.. given the location of it.. and GM parts
Many years ago, a child died in a Fiat Tempra, whilst they were a current car. I think the child was only 2 or 3 years old, and had pressed the auto up with their head out of the window. It lifted the child by the neck and effectively hung it 'til it died.
From that moment, Fiat removed one-touch from all their cars, only adding it back in quite recently.
At the time the death was widely publicised, but like all such events, only the main headlines, no facts, so Fiat took all the blame - it was obviously the car manufacturer's fault. It could have happened in almost any car of the time as the sensor and auto-back-off was quite new, and not very reliable.
The fact that the child was left to play in the car was not mentioned.
The windows would only operate with the ignition on.
So the parents had left a small child in the car, with the keys in. Yet no parental blame at all.
Fiat are presumably still very cautious of this, even now.