Interesting, I didn’t know that, I’ll have a look in my car next time I get in it.
Does that only apply to doors than normally have an electronic way of opening them?
Usually manual release safety levers or buttons have red or yellow markings on them, yes. Sometimes they have a logo or icon to denote what they open, and sometimes they are marked with “PULL TO OPEN” or some other similar phrase.
dotMonkey@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Eh, I’ve seen plenty of internal trunk releases that are just an unmarked handle that pulls a cable…
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I am a professional mechanic, worked at several dealers. Nearly every car had a safety mechanism that was at least one of several of those. The only ones I didnt mention are ones that glow in the dark for trunk releases. But outside of cars that were built before mechanical safety releases were commonly incorporated in design, its not common to see mechanical safety releases that are completely unmarked. Some have a plastic cover, like the transmission neutral release, but they still generally have red/yellow/orange markings, text on them, or they glow in the dark.