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Some ideas are considered too stupid to legislate against before someone does the stupid thing.
The world continues for a few centuries without them and then suddenly there are warning labels to "not to operate heavy machinery" on bottles of sleeping pills.
Door handles that don't work in an emergency are the engineering equivalent.
It's easy to make a door handle that always works, it takes effort to make a door handle that sometimes works. It's a special kind of stupid.
I can't imagine how bad a Tesla would be without the legislation in place to force their hand and make them safe. This problem slipped through the net.