> All I said was that if I absolve the driver of whatever responsibility he believes he has for me Except that you are not authorized to do that, so it doesn't

> All I said was that if I absolve the driver of whatever responsibility he believes he has for me Except that you are not authorized to do that, so it doesn't have any effect and it is still his problem. > The initial issue was that the driver is unable to open the door even if we both assess the risk as negligible. If he assesses the situation to be safe, he just opens the door. He routinely does exactly that (outside of normal stops). If he didn't open the door, he did not consider it safe.