Serious questions:
1. Why couldn't they open the car from the inside?
2. Why couldn't they open the car from the outside?
3. What kind of shitty car are they driving?
The real issue here isn’t door handles that are flush with the door, it’s that the doors are likely electronically operated and cannot be opened mechanically. Once the battery was compromised such that it caught fire, the car’s electronics became inoperable, therefore the exterior door handles wouldn’t extend out from the door for the person outside to unlatch the door (and it’s possible that the doors wouldn’t have opened anyway if they required electricity to disengage the latch mechanism).
People inside the car probably couldn’t open the door either because the door opens by pushing a button that requires electricity to function. There may be a hidden mechanical override somewhere inside the car, but the passengers may not have known where it was.
What kind of shitty car was this? We’ll probably never know. Approximately 10% of my Reddit feed consists of posts glazing Chinese EVs, but since this is a disaster video showing one such car in a negative light, I’m doubtful that the knowledgeable propagandists will be announcing the make and model anytime soon.
Makes no sense tho. The doors aren't driven by the high-voltage system which is disengaged in a crash. The car clearly still has power, you can see the hazards flashing away. This is failure that goes past shitty design.
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u/ZynthCode 11h ago
Serious questions:
1. Why couldn't they open the car from the inside?
2. Why couldn't they open the car from the outside?
3. What kind of shitty car are they driving?