Four dead in fire as Tesla doors fail to open after crash

wow. That's genuinely scary. Sitting on top of a lithium fire while locked in seems terrifying.

I wonder whether legislators should require inclusion of one of those glass break hammers in each car?

Would those hammers work on Tesla windows? IIRC, they now use laminated glass (like windshield glass) on the door windows as well.

If they're going to legislate anything it should be that door handles (internal and external) just can't be like that in the first place. I say external and internal because a few articles went around HN a little while ago of parents ending up with their kids locked in teslas on hot days and unable to get out because the stupid thing had no mechanical external door handles.

It really troubles me that in many countries we have to ponder legislating something as fundamental as car door handles. Like, yes, regulations are written in blood, but door handles? Do we really need to be told to make door handles mechanical and where door handles go? It's just absurd to me that these doors were designed as such in the first place.

The irony is that rear doors don't have emergency overrides easily accessible because of federal regulations. If we did, children would use them when the child lock is enabled.