Getting out of your vehicle in an emergency is a critical safety issue, and it's why Rivian plans to redesign its cars' interior door handles.
Getting out of your vehicle in an emergency is a critical safety issue, and it's why Rivian plans to redesign its cars' interior door handles., it’s related to their interior door handles. Specifically, the emergency door handles are hidden and hard to find when in a panic.
But Tesla isn't the only manufacturer with issues related to emergency releases; a reportWith the advent of electric door openers in cars, SUVs, and trucks, the need for an emergency manual release is paramount to occupant safety. Manufacturers have tried to balance interior design with the ability to find the emergency release, with often confusing results. Chevrolet had its issues with the introduction of the C6 Corvette and its electronic door openers,, Rivian is taking a proactive step with its R2 series of products to create a new manual door release that is closer and more visible than the version used in its R1s. When a vehicle with electric door handles loses power, there is no way to open the doors. This requires a manual release. The problem is that there is a need to balance design, simplicity of controls, and emergency functions so the interior is not only intuitive but also looks nice. Manual release mechanisms or pull cords for the doors are hidden in the name of vanity, in other words. They are usually labeled, but far too often those labels get integrated with the plastic door card panels , and that symbol gets lost visually when humans panic. Therereport, but Rivian is taking advantage of the R2 to redesign the interior door handles to make finding the manual release easier. It comes after Tesla has indeed been investigated over its interior manual release issues and amid concerns raised during R1 series production, including points raised internally by Rivian staff during its redesign. For the latest R1 series, the emergency manual door release for the. The process is located on Page 422 in the owner’s manual. By contrast, the front doors have a very visible manual door release.Apparently, now the manual release handles are located near the electrical interior door handles in the rear doors of the 2026 R2 EV SUV. What that looks like, exactly, hasn’t been exactly leaked, but the, there is room to integrate a visible manual release within the door-pull pocket in the armrest, but we haven’t seen finalized images of the R2s interior to say for sure. Regardless of who has an issue with electric interior door handles today, we think it’s a good time to make the rule clearer about emergency manual door releasesHaving experience in many forms of the automotive industry, Justin Banner has done more than just write about cars. For more than 15 years, he's had experience working as an automotive service technician—including a stint as a Virginia State Inspector—service advisor, parts sales, and aftermarket parts technical advisor . Prior to his tenure as a full-time editor, Justin worked as a freelance writer and photographer for various publications and as an automotive content creator on YouTube. He’s also covered multiple forms of motorsports ranging from Formula Drift, drag racing, and time attack, to NASCAR, short course off-roading, and open desert racing. He's best known for breaking down complex technical concepts so a layperson can more easily understand why technologies, repairs, and parts should matter to them. At MotorTrend, Justin is part of the news team covering breaking news and topics while also working as a judge for MotorTrend Of the Year events and other major comparison tests.
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