I was scared to read about how a Tesla's door handles work -- it may apply to other modern cars, but I've only read about the Tesla. (It was probably when thi

I was scared to read about how a Tesla's door handles work -- it may apply to other modern cars, but I've only read about the Tesla. (It was probably when this incident first hit the news.) The doors are electronic. The front doors have a mechanical override simply by pulling the door release lever further than usual. That's OK. For the rear doors, there's an emergency cable to pull on at the very bottom of the door[1]. I was 11 when my dad crashed our car, at night at a decent speed. When we stopped moving, the car next to ours was already on fire, and I'm told ours also caught fire, although I didn't notice it at the time. My dad's (driver's) door was blocked, so he had to clamber across my younger sister in the front passenger seat. I unbuckled my younger brother (age 5), opened his door a bit, but had to kick it to get it to open sufficiently -- it was also badly dented in the collision. If we'd had a Tesla, would you expect 11 year old me to know to "look below the seats for the carpet flap, find the little plastic tab, grab it and pull it to the side" -- and to be able to kick open the door while pulling that tab, since the side of the car is smashed in? (We were all uninjured; some people in other cars had broken bones.) [1] https://youtu.be/01lXcD_Uz74?t=41 https://youtu.be/01lXcD_Uz74?t=41