I think it is. My only experience with Teslas is that I sat in my friend’s new one last week. He showed me the emergency door opening handle underneath the armrest in the door. Could it be that this isn’t a feature on every model?
Maybe, but it seems a pretty basic piece of safety equipment
This is a problem. Emergency exits (and the manual release is an emergency exit) need to be obvious and not require thinking to get out.
I think this is what they meant by ...”should learn to do so manually.”
To your point ...
https://insideevs.com/news/507202/how-escape-from-tesla-emergency/
One can get our of the FRONT seats manually in all models. Apparently in some of the older models there was no rear seat manual release.
Be bad for an Uber passenger trapped in the rear seat after a wreck, but the lack of a manual release would also keep a shrewd child from opening the door at the wrong time.