Tesla owners are modifying their cars to be escapable if the car catches fire, because the doors stop working like normal and you need to rely on well-hidden mechanical overrides.
Which… feels pretty dangerous, like that’s the worst possible time for the doors to stop working like normal.
This all sounds mostly right to me. But the regulations aren’t pointless, they’re just incomplete. I’m still quite happy that we have these protections.
And also, you tend to only get regulations on issues after they’ve proven to be a problem. It’s like warning labels, if you see a label that says “don’t put your hand here” it may be because someone did once, and it was bad.
So with that in mind, there hasn’t previously been any need for regulations on door handles that don’t work without power, because it’s never been an issue before. Now that we see a need for that kind of regulation, we may see it go onto the books. Now it’s true that we shouldn’t have to spell that kind of thing out in legislation, but (and I can’t stress this enough) people can be very dumb…