The LW has thumbholes in both the straightedge and serrated blades. These work pretty well to flip the knife open quickly. The serrated blade has notches cut in the top so that you know it from the straightedge blade without looking.
Having only looked at 'em on Amazon and not hands-on, I saw one from SOG or similar that made it sound like the opening action was basically a centrifugal thing via flicking one's wrist.
Something like that is what would interest me .. I can get that Gerber open pretty quickly, but it still involves some 'fiddling', which could potentially make a difference someday.