emergency escape

[GlmnAlyAirCar]

The op asked how to open the doors from the inside. The question was answered correctly....physical cable that needs no power.

he didn’t ask how to open from the outside. Again, same as any other car. On a non-Tesla, if the door is locked you can pull on the handle all day and it won’t open. At least on the Tesla you can tell the door is locked because the handles don’t present.

 

[MarcusMaximus]

I think the problem is people are saying if/when in an accident, on goers that attempt to help are unable to access the car, because the exterior door handles didn't (hypothetically) extract. I thought they automatically extract when an accident is detected, but apparently that's the issue, when they don't.

Which, of course, isn't much, if at all, worse than for any other car. Sure, on other cars the handles are out, but on all cars nowadays the doors are locked if the driver went > ~15mph at any point(ditto for the S). So the situation is improved only in that the responder can uselessly pull on the locked door handle.

 

[Naekuh]

didnt elon tweet one day he was going to add ejection seats on the passengers side.

 

[ucmndd]

but on all cars nowadays the doors are locked if the driver went > ~15mph at any point(ditto for the S).

Nearly all modern cars (Teslas included) automatically unlock all doors when a collision is detected.