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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.
And where are these releases? Are they accessible from the exterior easily like a door handle?
No that’s absolutely something valid to bring up the exterior door handles are dumb.
If you actually want to know where they are, there’s one above the window controls on the front side doors, where your hand naturally rests. You just pull it up like a regular door handle.
Backseats pull a tab in the storage area of their doors. It’s behind a little patch of fabric.
That's the first thing I'm going to think of while panicking when trapped in the back seat of a burning car that's not mine: "pull a tab in the storage area of the door! It's hidden behind a little patch of fabric, of course!"
Yeah not going to defend the design just wanted to be clear it’s there and works. It’s not hard to see or feel around for but yes you need to know where it is and how to use it before it’s beneficial. Though to be fair that’s true of any feature or car.
I once had a VW that had a special way of opening the regular door latch in order to engage the emergency latch, if you didn’t know how to do it, it wouldn’t work and wouldn’t be helpful. Some make you pull the handle twice.
Maybe a larger problem is this stuff isn’t very standardized to look/work the same across all models so everyone reinvents critically important safety features.
Front ones seem easy enough
Mmmmk, so now the driver is knocked out with the window up, what does a passerby do?
Passenger side has it as well.
Edit: oh it sounds like you’re wondering what someone outside the car does. They probably do the same thing they’d do for any car with hidden/shaved door handles (not exclusive to Tesla). Bust it open. It’s easy enough that vagrants do it all the time to steal junk.