Tom, I wish I were sloppy. My X5 had a bad actuator in the passenger side. My daughter was in the car, we had power, we stopped. We could pull her handle from the inside, front seat. The lock button by the window (on the top) would raise, but never unlock the door. She had to crawl across the seat to my side.

Imagine an accident. My side is crushed, we need to get out the passenger side. We've lost power. We can't get out the passenger side. Hopefully we can break a window.

The door locks appear to be unlock by wire in some sense.

That is disturbing.

The Prius is not like this. You can open door locks from the inside with no power. I haven't checked other cars, but many do not have a way to open from the outside, other than the driver door. Not even the trunk.