Baby locked in Bay Area family's Cadillac EV after sudden 'faulty battery' shuts car down

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4. I'm not sure how that problem is specific to the Cadillac EV.

People have been locking their children and pets in cars for as long as cars have had locking doors.

It seems wise to read the car's manual before driving it. A mechanical key hidden in the fob is pretty common these days Shame on carmakers who hide the mechanical lock away for stylistic reasons. And some chatbot was the most obvious way to discover this? Idiocracy is here.

Those electric flip up door handles have been banned in China for safety reasons. Doors must be unlockable from the inside by purely mechanical means and the unlocking mechanism must be in an obvious place. That seems a common sense requirement to me.