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Do electronically locked doors fail open or something? How is this different from a locked door? I would guess that breaking the windows is normal for first responders.
Yeah, first responders would break the window and drag the occupants out.
But from the article that nobody read, this was some guy from across the street and the car was already on fire. If he'd been able to pull the door open, he might have been able to drag somebody out. Even if the chances are that they were already dead, given it looked a pretty good crash.
They're not electronically locked; they're electronically actuated. When you use the "handle", it basically sends a request to the latch motor to Pretty Please open.
There's apparently a manual emergency release like... in the door panel on some of the models.
That sounds more like a problem for occupants trying to get out, rather than emergency crews getting in.
It's both. The emergency handle is only on the inside and even without the car being smashed can be hard to find, and it doesn't help anyone OUTSIDE the car to open the door either. I say "can be" because every car is fucking different with their shitty manufacturing process.
The front emergency handle is easy to find and most people will use it if you don't tell them not to. It's the rear seat one that's hard to find, or non existent on older models.
Locked doors don't help anyone on the outside either even if they're manual.