Our Ford van the doors automaticly lock when drive is engaged.
I hate the damn thing and the rear doors do have to be unlocked for the passengers to be able to exit. The child saftey lock for rear doors has to be disengaged every time the door is opened and closed. I constantly have to exit the vehicle to open the rear passenger doors to allow the passenger to exit. The front driver door will open with pull of handle.
I just never thought it was all that much work to crank a window down or pull up a lock.
There is almost certainly a way to reset that so the rear seat passenger is able to unlock and open the rear door.