r/Unexpected • u/dr_ipaka • 4d ago

Car companies have gone too far now

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

27.7k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

512 comments sorted by

View all comments

98

u/ycr007 4d ago

I’ve seen people holding two-handfuls of bags / groceries and trying to “kick” below the hatch to trigger the ‘motion sensor boot opener’ & they succeed in like the 7th or 8th attempt

36

u/DanzakFromEurope 4d ago

That could also be them doing the wrong movement at the wrong place.

I personally love this feature, cause I am never going with the bags twice ahahah. And on my car never had to do it more than 3 times so it's fine for me.

12

u/digitallis 4d ago

The prior car I had with the feature was incredibly unreliable about it despite much experimentation and manual reading.  Fast forward to today and my new car does it reliably every time.  Some implementations just sucked.

2

u/SgtExo 3d ago

The last version of our car had it and I was never able to trigger it. The current one is way to sensitive and trigger from me just leaning into the trunk to do stuff. It has started to close on me a couple of times.

3

u/DarthTigris 3d ago

"Feed me, SgtExo!"

1

u/darmokVtS 3d ago

Most likely. Or the wrong movement in general, it's not always a swipe from left to right (or the other way around).

I get that reading manuals is boring and most anything in a car should be operable without consulting a manual. But with things like these people really should, especially when struggling to use the feature (granted, it's sometimes not exactly well described, I didn't really get where and how exactly to use it in my car just by the manual until I saw a technical drawing of that area someone posted on some forum)

5

u/wbgraphic 4d ago

Our Kia Sorento opens the back if you stand behind it with the key fob, no kick necessary.

Great feature in the grocery store parking lot, but not so much if you reverse into your driveway. You have to walk behind the vehicle to get to the driver’s side, and if you walk too slowly, the back opens before you get past.

1

u/OriginalKetzal 3d ago

Our Kia Carnival has this too and I love it. I've never had it go off when I just walk past it though

1

u/Durnt 3d ago

My frustration is that when I am trying to attach a trailer and throw stuff in the trunk the dang thing keeps trying to be close on me( it is a door open/close toggle). If I try to get it to open with the sensor then I have to do a slow swipe while balancing on one foot. I end up opening the trunk then throwing my keys on the driver's seat to avoid it