Maybe break the window with your baton and pull the driver out?
Indeed, as I was reading this the first thought was “in case of emergency break glass!!!”
Cops mostly don’t carry batons any more, after Rodney King.
There are devices to break in or out of car windows. Have them.
How many LEOs still carry a baton? The "get home tonight" mantra means either shoot 'em or leave 'em be. If they cooperate, they live. LEOs are not paid to wrestle with perps.
As for the burning driver, he has the comfort of dying with a small carbon footprint. And the cremation is already started...
This +1
“....part of the design of the Tesla Model S is to retract the door handles into the car and they then “auto-present” and pop out when the car’s key fob is detected nearby......”
If the policeman breaks the window and the door handle does not “auto-present” how does he pull the driver out?
Maybe he could break the entire window, unhook the drivers seatbelt, and pull him through the window. That is a lot to do in the time it takes for the fire to spread in a car interior, if he figured it all out.
The design of the car seems unreasonably dangerous.
“Maybe break the window with your baton and pull the driver out?”
It takes, like, 4 weeks, to get any body work repairs on those cars (due to waiting on parts). The cops probably figured they were doing the right thing to minimize damage to the vehicle.
Way to simple. Watch Idiocracy.