It allows you to lock it with a pin. I don't want to carry keys.

Fine, then have a lock that's accessible electronically. The usual case of just opening the glove compartment when it's not locked can still just be a physical latch.

It’s entirely possible to do both.

I have rarely heard of a more indefensible position. It's like saying I don't want to unroll my sleeping bag, so I'm just not going to go to sleep. Clearly the payoff is worth the effort, or most people wouldn't do it.

Then put a physical button (with deep travel) on the glove compartment. If it isn't pin-protected it works exactly as a physical latch would, just with an extra redirection through some microcontroller. When you enable the pin lock, pressing the button opens the pin input on the screen.

Please go work for Tesla, because the design you just came up with on the fly is 100x better than theirs.

That sounds awful. My hand has to travel to the glovebox, find a button, back to the touch screen, then back to the box. There's no eloquence.

I think the tesla glove box is easier for a driver to open than a manual one. Two rapid taps & it's waiting for you

Most people leave the glove box unlocked most of the time. Tesla optimized for the rare case.

Right, because the person that broke into your car is not going to just going to rip it open with a crowbar?

Exactly, it's super useful & frictionless.

Why not make it a lock that doesn't require electricity? For example: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/combination-number-lock-meta...