If the player is in a car which is parked partially on and partially off a spaceship when that spaceship launches results in the car being sent up with the spaceship as expected. But the player is either ejected from the car, remaining on the surface, or the player just disappears resulting in something similar to nav view happening. When in this pseudo nav view, entering real nav view then exiting that nav view results in the player death window popping up and no corpse being left behind. It seems that if the car is partially off the east side of the spaceship the result is the "dead" player, while if the ship is hanging off the north, south or west sides of the spaceship results in the player just being ejected, regardless of which way the car is actually facing.
If the player is in a car which is parked partially on and partially off a spaceship when that spaceship launches results in the car being sent up with the spaceship as expected. But the player is either ejected from the car, remaining on the surface, or the player just disappears resulting in something similar to nav view happening. When in this pseudo nav view, entering real nav view then exiting that nav view results in the player death window popping up and no corpse being left behind. It seems that if the car is partially off the east side of the spaceship the result is the "dead" player, while if the ship is hanging off the north, south or west sides of the spaceship results in the player just being ejected, regardless of which way the car is actually facing.