So yes. Manual door releases are hard to find in an emergency, trapping occupants so they die unnecessarily in burning vehicles.
Perhaps we should all acknowledge that part out loud and prioritize making the manual release easy to find when you’re clawing desperately at the door as you burn to death.
Surely with all that computing power you could have some sort of fire detector that forcibly opens the doors and disables the locking mechanism.
Actually I see little reason why unlocking doors and holding them unlocked should not be mandatory in crash. On average that must be the preferable outcome.
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So yes. Manual door releases are hard to find in an emergency, trapping occupants so they die unnecessarily in burning vehicles.
Perhaps we should all acknowledge that part out loud and prioritize making the manual release easy to find when you’re clawing desperately at the door as you burn to death.
Surely with all that computing power you could have some sort of fire detector that forcibly opens the doors and disables the locking mechanism.
Actually I see little reason why unlocking doors and holding them unlocked should not be mandatory in crash. On average that must be the preferable outcome.