wait. in all seriousness. there's no door handle on the inside for the rear doors? why lol
There's door handles, just no manual release if the power dies in the back. It's supposed to unlatch them though if the powers dieing.
Thats, fucking retarded and going to get someone killed.
It depends how it's designed. If it's sort of a dead-man mechanism that requires system power in order to stay latched, then I wouldn't see a problem with that because it would naturally unlatch when losing power.
But, if it needs something to be electronically activated in order to unlatch, then yeah that's a very risky design.
If the goal of the M3 was to make a simple and cheaper car, wouldn't off-the-shelf door latches that cost like 10 bucks per unit in bulk orders be way easier?
Yeah honestly I can't forgive no mechanical failsafe
~futuristic~ yeah whatever I can it but there should 100% always be a mechanical back up
I'm guessing the reasoning is threefold:
the mechanic/electrical design of the rear door is already complicated
If you're in a situation where you need to exit and can't use the power rear doors but can use the front doors, you can get over the dash (scenarios: submerging vehicle???)
If you're in a situation where you need to exit and can't use the power rear doors and the front doors are stuck shut, you're probably in a situation requiring the jaws of life (scenarios: huge crash??)
Still kinda dumb though
Man imagine you hit a nasty pothole and the cable gets unplugged or some shit, fucking rear doors go flying.
Morgen:
https://i.imgur.com/c66bWny.jpg
I can't imagine that happening, no.
Windscreen glass is far tougher to bust out than windows though. In a submerged vehicle your best options are actually to get out of your seat belt, break the window, and exit either through the window or door. Worst case you will have to wait until the car basically fills with water to open the door due to pressure difference, which is of course risky and hence why everyone should have a window breaker in the car as an emergency item.
That sucks, it's kinda funny imagining it.
It's quite common for rear doors to not have a mechanical release on modern cars. There's also child locks that physically disconnect the mechanism in other cars.
On my Nissan Leaf the central locking mechanically locks all the doors, and if the car lost power while locked neither the front nor back doors would work.
Model 3 unlocks the doors in collisions at the same time the air bags go off, which seems like a massive improvement over my Leaf.
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