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I’m especially impressed with Ford’s hatch opener/closer. Mostly because they thought it through and understood the need for both open and close features. I’m assuming the car has a keyfob proximity sensor that turns on the motion sensor - I’m sure it is disabled when the vehicle is in motion or in gear but I wonder how they handle sitting at idle - for instance if I was sitting in the driveway with the car running at idle and my wife walked out of the house with a big wreath, walked to the back of the car and waved her foot, you’d expect the hatch to open…BUT, if I was sitting at a red light behind a funeral procession and put the car in park (in idle) to wait for the procession, could someone walk behind my car and wave their foot and run…laughing as my hatch came flying open? I wonder, I wonder.
Off topic - but the answer is it looks for the RFID chip in the key to see if the key is close to the trunk (wouldn’t be set off while in the car) and then if the sensor is activated. Prevents it from getting a false signal.