> No, but a reasonable person who buys a car like this should at least skim the manual once, looking for info on what to do in an emergency, precisely because i

> No, but a reasonable person who buys a car like this should at least skim the manual once, looking for info on what to do in an emergency, precisely because in an emergency they won't have time to look up such info. The door release cable is not even denoted as an emergency procedure so it is quite possible that they could have "skim[mmed] the manual once" and missed it.