It’s still possible to open it before the car submerges. It’s also possible to open it if you have the wherewithal to wait until the inside is nearly full. That’s providing you know where the damned release lever is. But if you’re panicking and pulling the electronic release and nothing happens then you’re going to die no matter what. Same too if the car is on fire or whatever.
Not that I disagree with you generally, but in the recent case, manual door release wouldn’t have helped, as it’s basically impossible to push open a car door against the water pressure outside a submerged car.
arc@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, you wait for pressure to equalize. But in a Tesla after pressure has equalized and you could open the rear door, the manual rear seat door open is in a camouflaged panel in the bottom of the door pocket. A door pocket that is probably filled with stuff because that’s Tesla added a door pocket so you can put stuff in it.
It’s intentionally designed to be unsafe.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It was a model X. It’s hard to believe they would put door pockets in those falcon wing doors. They would spill every time you opened the door