CCP Logibro has confirmed that CCP has barely just started looking into vehicle locks

NO
That blueberry is already in there since I called it in and he has no intention of leaving. He spent ZERO SP, ZERO ISK, and gives ZERO ***** about my tank. Small gunners are nothing but an annoyance currently with the horrible small turret hit detecton and inability to lock your vehicle. The fact that CCP just started looking into locks just made me lose even more faith in their ability to listen to player feedback.

No ... THAT blueberry has just got in your vehicle because he's under fire and low on health and your vehicle happened to be close by.

Random game, good dropship map. Call in my assault dropship. Notice half the team afking in the MCC. Fly up in that bay door and one random jumps in my dropship. Proceed to the nearest hive of reds and give homie a good angle, then pin down most of their team at the clone vat.

small group of soldiers actually fighting uses newly provided fire support to push the position. Team mates gun down those that got trapped with out reinforcements. Bravo hacked, swarms come in. Ground team has taken up a good defensive position. Pull out of the area and go to outer points. drop blue on the point and stay in area to cover. D hacked, homie jumps back into the dropship move to other outer point gun down all defenders and drop blue again.

Kill a few while blue hacks, E hacked. 3 reds managed to spawn, land in between reds and homie blue taking fire while he gets into the dropship. Lift up and kill all 3 then proceed to city to lay down some much needed cover fire for ground forces at B. Help retain defensive position. D hacked by a red, Fly back out take out red and destroy hostile LAV.

The second we stop giving people a chance to jump into our tanks/dropships/LAV's is the second all those people who say tankers only want to solo, dropships want to be gunships, and LAV's murder taxis are right. Ted you are a veteran tanker, instead of moping you should be educating blues about the power of tanks, if not through experience then through example. Bring two buddies along and show blues how to properly use the guns and mobility of a tank to the teams advantage.

I'm very happy CCP has been spending their time working on actual content and features rather than making people who play rambo tank happy.
I'll still kill your tank with my two gunners and my front gun, and you will wonder why an assault dropship killed you so fast.

soo selfish

As a gunnlogi driver the worst thing in the world is when I'm on fire. If a blueberry is in my HAV it means my HAV is already dead.
I get out to rep it because I don't want to lose it. But the turret guy switches seats to take it away. They just took... and went to the enemy camp thinking HAVs are gods because his locus grenade can't damage it. Like the little COD fish he is... It dies in 2 secs because people who only drive LAVs most likely have no concept of mods.

Ok, then I want the tank driver to also be visible and therefore can be shot out of their seats

HAV Pilots requesting vehicle locks, squad locks, etc:

Can you not have builds without the gunner turrets unequipped for scrub pubs?

Like, I have some jerkoff builds that I sacrifice a grenade or sidearm for - just to squeeze in stacked Complex KinCatz and stacked Complex Shields with a GEK.

Not trolling.
Curious.

Locking yes but no to kicking. I think kicking a merc out would lead to farming. A random jumps into an HAV, the pilot drives to their corp mates on the opposite team and kicks them out for free kills.