Locking programming and features

[stockguru]

So after 2 weeks of driving my new love I've got some pet peeves, but mostly with the locking/alarm features. Am I mistaken or do these simple options seem like they should be naturally available:

1) after I park my car, why wouldn't BMW give you the option to have all the doors automatically unlock? Why must we push the button all the time to get out or pull the door handle twice
2) if I don't push the alarm/lock button, why wouldn't the alarm automatically activate itself. Is there a need for someone to leave the car sitting there without the alarm for hours?
3)I concur with others in this forum about the need to have the tailgate close with the same push of the button on the FOB or dash. Why not? if it's not a hazard upon opening, why would it be a hazard on closing. Just make it close slowly and gently.
4) why would they design the tailgate opening key to be the same key for panic alarm? It seems that I need to hold down the tailgate key for 2 seconds for the tailgate to come up. Yet if it's 3 seconds then the panic alarm goes off. You can't believe how many times I've set off the panic alarm and looked like a moron in the parking lot.

Overall, not stuff I can't live with or without, but one would think this is common sense to the "world's best engineers"

[rh71]

2) I've complained about this as well. No passive arming is a worry if you run in carrying groceries or something and end up not locking it all night. The door locks don't have to lock, but at least have the alarm arm. BTW, the alarm is pathetically weak-sounding.

4) I have comfort access and even so I need to pop the trunk from a distance if I don't feel like waiting for it. I didn't know it was 2 vs 3 sec. It has been a royal PITA to get it to open without the alarm going off. I actually opt to use comfort access on the thing (push the soft-handle underneath) because I don't want to look like an idiot attracting attention with my car alarm going off in a public lot. The time difference between trunk & panic needs to be more forgiving although I realize they don't want the panic button to take 10 seconds either. I don't understand why the trunk can't be a 1-sec touch on the fob like the doors.

[Loki]

I think the reason that the liftgate is designed to not open instantly like the doors is so that you don't accidentally trigger it. Unlike accidentally unlocking the doors (say by hitting the wrong button), the liftgate could be damaged if there is an obstacle in the way. There has been more than one occasion where I hit the wrong button (attempting to unlock the doors, but actually hitting the liftgate button) or hit the liftgate button on the fob inadvertantly when playing around with it in my hand and worried that I may have smashed the liftgate into the back of my garage. In these cases I have been very happy that it is not an instant open function.

All that being said, I still have not mastered the > 1.5 sec but < 3 sec technique to avoid setting off the alarm. The design is terrible. I too have comfort access and pretty much always just use the soft open feature on the handle for the same reasons as rh71. Why not just put an extra panic button on the fob or better yet have a two button sequence like how many cell phones need to be keylocked. At the very least they could spread out the timing so that panic engages after (say) 5 seconds.