And coincidentally, only one of those is industrially mass produced warranting avoidance and remediation. Even if younglings being younglings, we shouldn't be making deathtrap vehicles optimized for incinerating occupants.
Yeah I think it's a stupid design and it should not be permitted. There should always be an obvious and fairly standard way to open a car door from the inside.
But we have those rear seat "child safety" locks that could have had the same effect.
And you can't always prevent someone from doing something fatally stupid.
Musk probably forgot that on a regular car, electric windows do not have a backup method to roll down, so whether or not this option is selected by a buyer, the primary door opening mechanism for everyday use has always been mechanical for a reason.
Then whether or not you select the additional option of electric door locks, the mechanical everyday handles remain the primary way each driver or passenger gets in and out most of the time.
So that type of familiarity could always be taken for granted, if someone has gotten in and out at least once, they have historically almost always been familiar with the mechanical handles to an extent just doing so.
And these type of victims had probably never had a chance to have even routinely gotten out of a Cybertruck for their first time, since the vehicle itself is still not very common.
For that reason the mechanical handles need to be not just the primary method of egress, but more prominent than average to make up the difference. Especially from the inside, and like the best-established motor companies have done, the electric locks are "simply" an augmented version of the underlying mechanical ones which remain in place and functional not just for nostalgic reasons.
Automatic windows and electric locks go together in ways that you really have to think about if you're going to match those who started decades earlier. Maybe that's why so many copied each other except for rare situations like this.
But we have those rear seat "child safety" locks that could have had the same effect.
And you can't always prevent someone from doing something fatally stupid.