[vicapow]

I like it. It means if someone breaks into the car they can’t get into the glove box. Also, with a Tesla, the car is never off so you don’t need to turn the car on again to get access to it.

[userbinator]

It means if someone breaks into the car they can’t get into the glove box.

If the attacker already broke into the car, I doubt the glovebox is going to put up much of a fight.

Also, I'm pretty sure the glovebox itself has a lock in a lot of cars.

[guestbest]

Not mine. It’s a buick

[kQq9oHeAz6wLLS]

I locked the glove box on my old Honda once. All it got me was a new dash, since the thief took a screwdriver and pried it open, destroying a lot more than if I'd just left it unlocked.

Thieves will find a way.

[imtringued]

I had a lock on the glove box on a used car. The lock was broken and it was difficult to open it so I never even bothered to use it. This has always led to awkward moments at borders.

[devmor]

What a fantasy scenario. In what world can someone force their way into to your locked car but can't force their way into the glove box?

[herewulf]

Most glove boxes don't have large panes of glass? The sound of a broken window to get in will also motivate a thief to not stick around messing with a glovebox very long. Maybe leave something worth running off with in the center console as a deflection.

[izacus]

This is a seriously marginal bizarre contriviance of a scenario to piss off people daily who use the glove box.

For your benefit, you'd need to have a thief that somehow can break class (which is suprisingly hard to do if you ever tried it) and then can't defeat a simple latch on a glovebox where they now for sure valuables lie?

Get out of here.

[kennend3]

You seem unaware that a car's glovebox door is made out of plastic and usually has just a single "hook" style latch?

Thief's who break windows to get into cars carry tools.. your glovebox is NOT secure.

Lastly, you seem unaware that most car thief's don't break the windows because this often leads to their capture.

[tempestn]

I hate it in my Tesla. You can have the glove box lock with the car while still giving it a physical handle.

[jonwest]

You know that most gloveboxes are already lockable weirdly a touch screen, yeah?

[midasuni]

Word “most” doing a lot of heavy lifting. I drove a lot of different types of hire car, and I’ve never seen an option to lock or unlock the glovebox, nor had a situation where it’s been locked.

[speedgoose]

With a key? It’s not very convenient.

[tempestn]

No, they lock automatically when the car does.

[speedgoose]

I see, it’s not too stupid. Probably more expensive.

[devmor]

Much more so than a touchscreen.

[speedgoose]

I don’t think so.