The manual releases should be visible, marked, and glow, like the emergency inside releases for the trunk and frunk.
I just couldn't agree more. There need to be large and solid handles, glowing red, placed under the seats, out of reach of small children in their bucket seats but within easy reach of both adult or teenage passengers in the back and of passengers in the front who are leaning over between the front seats.
Can you imagine how the current design is supposed to work in a real emergency, e..g. at night with the car swerving off the road and ending up in a water filled canal and with the electric system shortening out?
Driver: "Hey folks in the back, don't panic (they obviously do). We have only ended up in pitch darkness in a water filled canal, the car is about to sink and the door handles don't work. Just look for some small and invisible (it's pitch black) plastic cap below the seat, pull it off and the yank the fiddly thing inside really hard."
I'm sure it will work like a charm.
This isn't state of current technology, it's just money pinching, the same money pinching that got people killed in GM cars with their faulty ignition locks and in the B 737 Max with their unsafe design.
Should any people come to harm because of this, then I hope that Tesla gets hurt with fines that really hurt and that the managers who were responsible for this design decision go to jail. However, as with GM and Boeing, Tesla would probably get away with a slap on the knuckles (not too hard, mind).
And don't get me started on the stupid electronic door handles on the outside, which are copied by all sorts of other car manufacturers now, as reviewers found them so slick.
This poor design decisions obviously don't bother reviewers, who often test only brand new cars in nice, sunny locations like Southern California or Spain.
Rant over. Sorry for that. Obviously all that I said equally applies to all other manufacturers who are taking such poor design decisions.
