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Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

That's a similar method to the Tesla Model 3 and Y.

The S and X had motorized handles that retracted.

The Cybertruck has no physical handles on the outside. It has a button on the B pillar that activates an electric release to pop the door open.

All of those methods are flush, but only one isn't visible to rescuers and can completely fail with a lack of power or motor failure with no physical external backup option.