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I've never met anybody that shuns even VW for VW's reputational issue!

Where exactly did I compare VW to Tesla?

1. Those things are completely different and unrelated. It’s ok to be mad at both.

2. There is a difference between faulty and badly designed.

Doors stuck after crash happen in regular cars too, that's why you should have a window smasher in the car.

Same thing has happened in corvettes. Corvette has has electronic doors since at least the c6 (2005) and just like the Tesla has a manual release. But people still get “trapped” and die. There was even a story of an older guy dying in his corvette from asphyxiation because he couldn’t figure it out in ~30 mins.

In fact the Tesla release is more intuitive than the corvette. The corvette has it on the floor, the Tesla it’s right in front of the window switches. In my experience people pull the manual release thinking it’s the primary all the time.

But yeah, never mind the fact that electronic door latching has been around in the industry before Tesla even existed, and is present in VW and VW group vehicles let alone most other brands.