Know How to Escape from a Tesla Model S, 3, X and Y in an Emergency

You should always know how to open doors on a car in the event of an accident. The car manual will clearly show how to do this and in this video we will go over S, 3, X, & Y.

Some early Model Y manuals stated that there is a manual release in the door pocket for the rear. But that part is no longer in the Model Y manual. So it might have been removed. Do you have it in your car?

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[johneric]

An emergency door release should be self evident and not hidden. Otherwise it is possibly a danger to the people in the car. One should not have to read the manual. The trunk release is more user friendly than the rear passenger doors? Thanks for the explanation!

[DanielGjrTing]

Everyone who has been in a substantial collision knows that the 2 things you have right afterwards is: 1) Clarity of mind to remember where all emergency pulltabs are and 2) Dexterity and ability to climb over seats in a painless and efficient way.

Who the fuck designed this?

[Robert-pmbm]

The rear seat emergency releases are clumsy to operate in a calm environment. Imagine you just had a wreck and your car is on fire and you are trying to get out as quickly as possible. I doubt I would be able to remember how to remove the door pocket liner and then use my fingernail to pick at the little clip and pull the tab.

[corentinoger]

I work for a car manufacturer (Renault in France), on our cars, pulling the front door lever always override the locks mechanically, so you open the door the same way with or without power, it's a functional safety requirement. For the rear, it only works if child protection isn't engaged. Child protection disengages automatically in case of crash.

[normanfooteii]

This is nuts. Why are there multiple ways to do this per model, let alone it differs between models??? It should be standard no matter where you sit in the car. For instance it should just be under every seat for consistency. This is way too complicated. Also, if this is in the manual this should be on the front page and I'm willing to bet it's not. Honestly there should just be a red flap somewhere obvious in the car, you lift it up and it clearly states on a button or lever, pull/push if trapped.

[robertsteich]

Dear manufacturers, add the locations of emergency door releases to the airbag sticker on the sun visors.

[Scott-smnm]

Exceptional job on this video. That was a genuine public service.

[awofman]

This is very important: If you have tinted your windows, the film will make them act like laminated glass and a hammer will shatter the glass but it still will stay together and be difficult to push or pull out. If you have tinted laminated glass, breaking the glass will basically not help you at all.

[karunald]

This is so crazy. I have an X and did try this prior and it wasn't easy. If I had to get my dogs out of there....

[bobjohn]

This video deserves more views than ot currently does. I drive a 3 and only knew the hazard light was at the top cause I saw another youtuber struggle to find it!

[MorriesWigShop]

This is technically accurate, AND incredibly misleading.

The manual releases in Tesla’s are either cumbersome or simply not available in an emergency. PERIOD. Hidden overrides help no one in emergencies.

The lack of mechanical connection to door latches renders outside handles unusable. It wouldn’t matter if you had gotten the door unlocked or not, which can’t be done if there’s a need. As you can’t manually unlock any doors either.

All this shade BS about this is all you need to do? Well, then I guess we can all agree car seats are a bad idea for back seats. Especially actual babies who cannot operate this controls. Or seniors who may not be able to comprehend that they need to take all these steps to get out.

Huge design failure at Tesla. They designed for 100 reliability and as we’re seeing, the fires and failures do need to be planned for as inevitable. Tesla back seats are very dangerous in M3/MY for any passenger lacking enough mobility to climb up front.

MY/M3 babies require that parents climb to the back, unbuckle their baby, put it in the front seat, climb to the other front seat, grab baby and exit car. DANGEROUS!

MX babies need a parent to stretch or climb to the back to pop a speaker grill operate cable and open door. At which point, it’s probably better for the adult to go out the front and they retrieve their baby from the now opened back door. DANGEROUS

Outer handles need mechanical linkages to latches.
Door locks need readily accessible manual overrides. Then the easy to access front exiting passengers can rescue rear passengers by opening doors simply.

Instead engineers provided these convoluted and confusing mechanisms no passengers will be ready for or understand in case of a real emergency

Redo the video. Load the back seats. Throw a baby in a car seat. Now behave as if the car has had a failure and is smoking. Everyone needs to exit immediately! How much time do you have?

Make videos in all models. I have a MY. Like to see full size adults, maybe a ailing grandparent, climbing over the center console to make it to the front.

If it’s not a concern and I’m wrong, surely a properly EMERGENCY exit of vehicles can show that I’m off base. I’d like an EMERGENCY version of this video that shows a car load of people needing to get out. Not a calm explanation of where these hidden, hard to access controls are.

[vico]

Good subject matter, considering the Texas crash, I believe the crash took out the 12V battery and the occupants didn't know how to open the doors with 12V power outage.

[tbyrd]

Every driver and passenger in a Tesla needs to watch this.. The failure point in Tesla's is when you have an accident and lose power. Having to use a different way to open the door can make it hard or Impossible to escape a burning car. I have also heard of mechanical bypass latches being broken. All very deadly IMO. They got too clever on the door handles.

[frangalarza]

I recently got a Model 3 and absolutely love it! but this is a major flaw. The only reason for not installing a manual release on the rear doors is to save costs.
Moreover, I only found about this because I'm curious. Nobody at Tesla mentioned this to me, the intro videos didn't mention it either. Wasn't safety their number 1 priority?

[YouJamie]

Great idea - would be great if the Tesla PR dept did this. Would be good to remind folks that the windows will NOT work if power is lost.

And please do a video on how people outside can rescue you if needed - do the outside handles work ?

[RckingRcker]

It should NEVER be this hard to exit a vehicle. This is a massive safety hazard.

[DJJahT]

Good lord, it is a death trap in a fire if you're in the back.

[nroose]

seems like the manual open should be simpler and more cleanly integrated with the electric openers. Like use the regular opener to do the regular open by pull or push hsrder to do the manual open. It would just be better for all situations.

[YourTechGuide.]

*Poorly design when it comes to emergency manual release lock. Why hide the manual release lock. 2 days ago someone's model y catch fire and he had to kick himself out. Adrenaline rush probably got to him causing him to scramble looking for the emergency lock since its hidden. I'm so disappointed cause my model 3 will be arriving in a month from now!*

[Stryford]

At 5:01 you missed an opportunity to add the clip of Michael Scott saying, "That's what she said!" LOL