Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/26/2016)
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.
Wow, that is amazing. Seems to me to be really terrible design. I'm surprised there are no safety regulations preventing it - or maybe no, as you're in the USA where any regulations requiring safe design are regarded by a lot of people as malicious government interference with business's rights to make profits unencumbered by safety considerations.
Tom