So which is it?

[Munch]

There is a new VW commercial where a guy drives his car into a wall in a crash test facility and then the announcer comes on and says the smartest things you could do during a crash are shut off the fuel supply, unlock the doors and something else which I forget.

I thought the reason that most new cars automatically lock the doors when you start driving is so they don't fly open in a crash and you get thrown out, it's certainly not so nobody sneaks in while you're driving. So if the doors lock automatically when you start driving why would VW have them unlock when you're in a crash? Why bother locking them in the first place?

[Defib1961]

I was always under the impression that the doors locked to keep a passenger from inadvertently opening the door from the inside. One of the reasons why doors would UNlock would be in case of an accident, you are knocked unconscious or otherwise incapacitated, someone from the outside can get inside to you. There have been numerous times we have had to either break a window or wait on FD to cut a door off due to a locked door.
Just a couple of suggestions.

[NEVRL8T]

Where I live, I don't want no car that's going to unlock my doors in a crash. I want one that will bounce my ass out of a rice field.