There’s a very real chance the driver didn’t know how either.

Some things should just stay mechanical, and car door handles are one of them. The packaging benefits are not worth the danger it creates for consumers.

You can actually use Agile on a safety critical product. What matters the most is the discipline and mindset in which you’re working. You need your requirements and your tests very well defined from the start, and you must absolutely not deploy to the end user community before a high level of rigor in the test…

Good point — maybe there’s an opening for the passengers’ families to sue Tesla because the deceased did not have any instruction on how to use the rear doors.

This:

I had a CTS with power door releases, but it also had a very obvious, long handle at the base of the door for an emergency manual release. Not a tiny latch or hidden pull cable.

It’s also a big issue to use Agile methodologies designed for the rapid release of software projects in a physical engineering space, or a software space that is life-support critical.

Those are spaces where you need rigor and redundancy, not rapid release.

It’s the biggest problem with the Agile design methodology. You’re supposed to maintain momentum by focusing on producing a minimum viable product with each sprint. The idea is this keeps you from getting distracted, which is great, but the problem is that it enables business wonks who want to call that product done. I…

That is a good point, no none of the other cars that use electric door actuators were in as large a volume as these. Didnt realize that the lincoln continental used them too.

I have a Model 3, and what’s even more fun about the manual door release is that if you use it, the car will complain you could break the window because the manual lever doesn’t lower it an inch or so like the electronic release does.

That only makes the decision to have electric door latches and completely hiding the manual releases all the more dumb knowing that they have caused people to die needlessly in the past.

No, he just doesn’t care if he does.

Or pop the plastic cover off of the rear emergency door release, reach down awkwardly and grip it for dear life.

They did know. They simply didn’t care.

This certainly has changed my mind about riding in the Backseat of a Model Y for any reason.

I’ve only ridden in a Tesla once, in the back seat of an Uber. Besides it being uncomfortable with no room under the seat for my toes, I couldn’t figure out how to open the door from the inside. How did anybody not notice this might be a problem?

“most Teslas come with manual release levers.” That’s a scary thought. How is it that carmakers need to have glow-in-the-dark emergency release handles for trunks, but not something similarly for electrically controlled door handles?

Every model Y that I have ever been in has manual release latches on the door handle in addition to the electronic release button.

Impossible. Elon invented the electric car, and certainly electronic door latches.

Thank God Tesla came along to save us from the horrors of manual door handles. If not for their work, imagine the terrors we would be forced to endure.