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Not having mechanical door releases for emergencies like this just seems so friggin dumb, but what do I know.
They do. Each front door a manual lever and each rear door has a manual release pull tab.
A dumber idea would be driving around a car without knowing how it works. The article doesn’t even mention them until the last paragraph, and poorly.
The emergency releases are covered in the manual as well as official tutorial videos and countless YouTube how-tos. The front door lever is exactly where you think it is. You have to literally do zero research about the car you’re buying to not know about them.
EDIT: not sure why this touched a nerve. Every recent car model has their own way of invoking an emergency manual door release, EV or ICE. This is a new car problem, not just a Tesla problem. Simply pointing out the fact that it’s there.
Let's not blame victims for poor design.
I did not mean to suggest the victims in the article did not know what they were doing, just that you should probably get familiar with your vehicle’s safety features before driving it regularly. Of course that’s contingent on them being there and functional.
It’s possible they tried and it didn’t work apologies if it seems like I was trying to suggest that it’s their fault, I was speaking more to car owners in general than the subjects of the article.