If you’re in a car and it starts burning, you’re going to open a door and get out as quickly as possible. However, in some Tesla fires, there are concerns that vehicle occupants have perished when the electrically-activated doors have failed to open in an emergency situation. Now, some safety-minded owners have found a solution: installing ripcords in their vehicles for quick escapes.
Many Tesla vehicles use electronic push-button door releases, which are all well and good until the vehicle is damaged or loses power. For safety’s sake, the doors also have manual releases, but they can be very hard to spot, particularly in an emergency. In many of Tesla’s vehicles, the emergency pull cords are hidden behind panels or trim, and you need to know where to look. If you’re in a burning vehicle that’s filling with smoke, your chances of finding them without prior knowledge are slim to none.
As reported by FuelArc, there’s an easy fix for this issue. The emergency door releases simply need to be made more visible. Creative owners have achieved that by attaching a big, brightly colored ripcord to the emergency door release mechanism.
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A common way to achieve this is with the use of a simple keychain. Many brightly-colored examples are readily available online. Aviation-themed examples are particularly appropriate, such as this “PULL TO EJECT” example shown on Reddit. Another poster on Imgur went with a “DON’T PANIC” tag, which is amusing, if less obvious as to its purpose.
As these posts demonstrate, the keychains can easily be threaded onto the mechanical door release already in the rear doors of the Tesla Model Y. The same method can also be used, with some variation, on other Tesla models like the Model 3, and potentially even the Cybertruck, to make the emergency door pulls more visible.
The benefit of installing such a device is that it makes the door release far more obvious. This is particularly helpful for passengers who don’t own or routinely ride in a Tesla. They might never find a door release hidden under a panel in the door card, but they can easily spot a yellow “PULL TO EJECT” tag and operate it intuitively.
If you don’t fancy homebrewing a solution with a keychain, there are off-the-shelf options, too. Tesery sells a “Safety Pull Cord” for the Tesla Model Y that looks a little more OEM-like for $23 AUD ($15 USD), and EV Dynamics sells a hi-viz orange version on Amazon for $22.50.
It might sound like a frivolous or paranoid modification, but it’s anything but the case. News outlets have reported on multiple Tesla fires where lives have been lost when occupants couldn’t escape a burning vehicle. The Oaklandside reported on a fatal crash in California last year where rescuers were only able to save one of several occupants trapped inside, having broken windows to gain access when doors failed to open. Meanwhile, The Star reported on a crash in Toronto that killed four. Bystanders and rescuers suspected the electronic door release had failed, as the occupants were unable to free themselves from the vehicle. In the wake of the tragedy, Randy Schmitz, captain of the Calgary Fire Department, noted that many drivers didn’t know how to find the manual door override:
Part of the problem is [salespeople] don’t inform the vehicle owners of this feature so it falls on the vehicle’s owner to seek out the information in their service manual that comes with every vehicle,” he said.
This video explains where to find the emergency door releases in the Tesla Model Y. On the front doors, it’s quite easy to find ahead of the power window switches. The rear door emergency release is far harder to access, hidden under a mat and a plastic panel.
As more cars adopt electronic door releases, this is a problem that may become more widespread. Some automakers get around the problem with smart engineering. As Consumer Reports notes, one can trigger the emergency release in the Audi E-Tron by pulling the door handle “forcefully” and “beyond its noticeable resistance” multiple times. That’s perfectly intuitive, because it’s exactly what you’d be doing if you were trying to escape a burning car. Similarly, the door handle in the Ford Mustang Mach-E also works as the manual release. However, other automakers have stuck with less obvious emergency releases—notable examples being the Chevrolet Corvette, Lincoln Continental, and the Genesis G90.
One might hope that automakers would just go back to using regular door handles, but it seems that horse has bolted. If you’re driving a car with electronic door buttons, there’s not much to do other than familiarize yourself with the proper escape routines—and educate your passengers, as well.
As it stands, if you’re driving a Tesla, and you worry about your passengers making a quick escape, you might like to invest in a cheap little modification for your own peace of mind. As the saying goes, sometimes it’s better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
Image credits: via Amazon, Tesery, Tesla
Top graphic images: Tesla; Martin-Baker
I mean, sure, in theory, but in practice the three-ish times my MGB caught fire under the dash I slapped at the flames bare-handed and kept driving.
Nice, Robert S. Johnson style!
This raises an excellent point for Tesla, cars and other stuff. In the old days anything used to display for emergency was required to be very visible. I mean emergency orange for EMT workers, safety orange for hunters. Why did our newest genius generation decide hiding emergency equipment with black on black was a good idea. Hell I can’t find most of my iPhones features because everything is black on black. Even the batmobile has a emergency release the would blow out the doors if pulled and it wasn’t computer controlled
My solution is to continue never owning a Tesla or riding in a Tesla.
This isn’t a new aversion, I’ve always disliked the cars and the Musk.
You do realize every EV is setup the same way and Musk owns less than 30% of Tesla? Gotta love headline warriors I’ll fight for anything in the headlines as long as I don’t have to read the whole article. It’s just amazing.
Wrong. Not every EV has electronic latches. I know the Solterra/bz have mechanical latches, so there goes your absolute argument. I would be willing to bet $1 that many other EV’s from traditional automakers have mechanical door latches as not all of them are chasing Tesla feature-for-feature.
Also: owning near 30% of shares is a MASSIVE ownership stake for a public company. For comparison, at its peak Ford owned about 25% of Mazda, and that was considered an ‘ownership stake’.
As usual, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Yeah, I’m sick of all the gibberish nonsense
Not every EV is set up the same way, and if I can buy a car that has 0% Musk ownership and is better designed – such as, for example, having easy to find and use door handles – why wouldn’t I do that?
You go girl.
Not every, but definitely a lot of them. It’s one of the main reasons I got a Leaf.
Our family’s Chevrolet Bolt does not have electric or electronic door latches. Just pull the lever and open the door, nice and simple and safe.
No CEO or founder of a publicly traded manufacturing company owns anywhere near 30% of it. There’s too much dilution as you take in investor money to build the business. With capital-intensive businesses like making cars or grocery store chains, founders get diluted a lot.
And even if 30% ownership was normal, 30% of a trillion dollars is a lot.
I just don’t get that the powered door latches are like a ‘luxury’ thing. Like the Lyriq has them but the Blazer/Prologue don’t, that to me is just asinine.
Like oh, we could totally just put regular door handles on them, and actually the Blazer is rated more efficient, but ya know what, we’re just gonna add failure options to the car.
It’s similar to headphone jacks in phones. Only the cheaper models have them anymore. I don’t get it.
It is beyond idiotic that high vis manual door releases are not required by law in every vehicle with electric door latches.
Think about this. Glow in the dark escape handles are mandatory for all trunks, even in my tiny Miata. So is it safer to ride in the trunk of a Tesla? Obviously that’s a ridiculous rhetorical question, but that’s exactly the point! SMH
I was on the waitlist for the Model 3… very early so I would have got one very early. When the car released I researched the car before completing the order.
Things I discovered:
1) In the event of a crash the main battery AND the 12V battery disconnect and cut power to the entire car. So electric doors no longer work. Windows no longer work. Nothing.
2) You now need to find the manual release to get out.
3) There is no manual release for the rear Model 3. None. The manual actually tells people you need to either go out via the trunk or climb up to the front doors to get out.
Yeah, in a crash I’m going to get my 80+ year old dad fold down the seat (if they are the only one in the back sea) and climb out the trunk (if empty). Or have them climb to the front doors to get out. Especially in an emergency.
I cancelled the reservation for such an idiotic feature… in hindsight I am very happy I did not order a Tesla.
I didn’t go as far as getting on the waitlist but I was strongly considering a Model 3 when they were first announced, so glad I got a Prius instead. Physical door handles for the win
They saved over $60 per vehicle by excluding them.
I just made that up, but you get the point. You made a good choice.
Just checked the manual, the Model 3 has a manual release for the rear doors, it’s behind a panel in the bottom of rear door pocket, not intuitive, and probably not enough in an emergency, but it is there.
It was not there in first model year. I checked the manual.
Not surprising, but they’ve got it now, albeit in a pretty piss poor location.
They can do better and should do better.
Here is the manual. Go to page 9
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v9F2sky8jvfjij5ddPwcUjSyXCnSotcL/view
I didn’t know other people were doing this. The little cover is too hard to remove in an emergency so I’m making a cover with a slot in it to add a rip cord.
The fact that people have DIED because tesla wanted fancy electronic door handles is beyond words. Imagine telling people 20-30 years ago that we would make cars that would trap the owners inside in an emergency because we wanted a stupid feature!
There’s a known issue in the human factors world that the less frequently something is or needs to be done, the more obvious it has to be.
That’s why many cars have the hazard light switch dead center and high up on the dashboard, and why modern emergency trunk release handles/cords glow in the dark.
Having the passenger compartment emergency release handles in non-obvious locations is engineering negligence.
Take a look at the emergency escape panels on an airplane next time you fly. Not only is the handle right out in the open, it’s labeled and the instructions are printed right next to it.
In an emergency, you don’t have time to dig through the user’s manual.
Bingo. I’m a proponent of visual maintenance as well. Your oil fill cap now lists the oil spec right on it, and most dipsticks are a quart between full and low lines.
What is this “dipstick” you speak of?
(owner of 2 Euro cars with electronic oil level monitoring)
And tires show the recommended psi range. Or at least max.
“But if your beautiful Tesla were on fire, would you really want to keep living?” -Musk
A not-insignificant portion of Tesla owners: “no”
“My family burned to death in my Tesla because they couldn’t get out after a crash. Still love the car, though!”
Maybe I’m dumb, but what problem did electric door handles solve? Is it just technology for the sake of technology, or is there a reason why engineers would prefer to decouple the pull from the mechanism?
I think it’s some combination of technology for the sake of technology and saving a few bucks on the manufacturing side. Same issue as the “touchscreen everything” nonsense, which was also made mainstream by Tesla.
Can 4 servos really be less $ than dumb mechanical coupling?
Technology as style. Same idea as jet plane tail fins and fake jet engine taillights on late 50s cars. Only no one died from tail fins.
Likewise, steering yokes on cars.
I think those tailfins were deadly in accidents. Like if a motorcyclist hit a 60 Caddy from the rear it would be a bad day. But more importantly, these had the gas filler neck hidden in them regularly. Which was a REALLY bad thing to break off in an accident.
Maybe, but the hidden gas caps in the fins was way cool, unlike touch-everything controls.
I’m an engineer. Why make a separate system that nobody uses, unless I am required to for safety reasons.
Take a modern car. Look for a keyhole. There isn’t one. There’s no key in the dash or the doors or the trunk or anything. Nobody has used a key to unlock a car for almost 30 years. Most cars today are push to start and the fob stays in your pocket. So, why build a complex system to do something in an old manner that nobody ever does?
EXCEPT. Also as an engineer, I know that safety is important. I deal with pressure vessels. There’s a valve on the top of the vessel that you never use and never should use. But if something goes sideways, that valve must open to keep the vessel from turning into a bomb. There are strict codes about this valve to make sure things stay safe. If your car doesn’t have a keyhole and the battery goes dead and you can’t get in, then that isn’t a problem, just walk away and call someone to figure it out. But if you are in the car and the car is shutdown and the doors won’t open because the car is dead (e.g. after an accident), then there HAS to be a secondary system that is dead simple, reliable and works every time. And this is something that Telsa does have.. but did too good a job at hiding.
It needs to NOT be hidden at all.
Better yet, just have a regular old door release handle like we’ve all been using for the last century. As others have stated, why “fix” a problem that doesn’t exist?
Somebody (Dodge Viper?) had one that you pulled and it triggered an electric release mechanism, but if that failed and you did what you would normally do in panic mode (just pull it harder) it triggered a mechanical release to let you out. Simple and obvious to operate, and so well designed it required no training. Absolutely brilliant engineering.
Yes, I mean it needs to be obvious, but it doesn’t have to be ugly. The solution you talk about is “hiding” the secondary system, but in a way that works, doesn’t require additional training to figure out and isn’t ugly.
You could do something similar with a button. Push harder and it does the opening mechanically. Or push a lot of times in a row and it switches to mechanical (think a ratchet system). Or push hard enough and a panel pops open with a giant glowing handle that says “PULL”. There are ways to do this without making the car stupid looking.
This. Personal experience: The keyfob battery died on the Skoda (probably the same system in other VAG-vehicles), meaning that the remote unlock does not work, and neither does the keyless entry. But you can rip a plastic part on the door handle assembly, and there is the keyhole. And then you can start the car by pressing the fob on the keyless start button. Sounds complicated, but… in comparison what do you do, when you should use the dead mobile phone as the key? Or the 12v battery is dead and you need to get inside to access it?
With a fully modern car where there is no key only a fob or a phone, I’m unsure of how you get in and start it if the battery is dead or the fob isn’t working. But that just means you can’t get in the car and drive it. Uber is a thing if worse comes to worse.
But if you are on fire after an accident, you can’t have a “well, the key fob got damaged, so you can’t get out of the car, sorry.” There has to be a 100% obvious and 100% easy way to get out of the car. This modification to the Teslas is a good idea. But the fact that Tesla hid the manual releases so effectively, that you need to do this modification shows a very poor planning. But it could be something like a glass breaking hammer by every window that glows in the dark if the power is out or something too.
Unless you have a baby and or a pet in the car and it’s hot or below freezing outside….
Or you’re trying to get to safety from some creep following you in the underground parking garage.
Except in the case of some of the electric cars mentioned, they didn’t decouple the mechanism – it’s still there for an emergency. So there wasn’t even a cost or weight savings. It’s strictly for the coolness factor.
“but what problem did electric door handles solve?” Money, darling; Money. It’s cheaper to build cars with switches (and even cheaper with touch switches) with actuators run by software than it is to design and build a mechanical system to accoplish same. MUCH cheaper. “People died but, damm; that Model 3 was crazy affordable”.
I’m not sure I buy this. The Teslas still have a mechanical release mechanism, so that cost is still baked in. They just did a really shitty job with the design, resulting owners having to either spend time and money installing their own makeshift safety feature, or live with the risk of they and their passengers not being able to escape from the vehicle.
If DOGE hadn’t sacked the governing body, I’d say this probably warrants a recall. 13 attributable deaths is a lot.
Probably to have the flush aerodynamic door handles that are hard to use. First push, the stupid thing out, then pull – that would be difficult to achieve (cheaply) with a mechanical solution.
But why oh why did so many of the other manufacturers think that it is something worth copying?
My favorite part about this is Elon Musk absolutely hates Safety Yellow/Orange.
We rolled our ’76 VW ASI camper bus 1 1/4 times landing on the slider door. This left the driver door as our only escape, which we did. The next bus we bought was an ’80 VW Westfalia. Being experienced with the need to find a way out of a rolled bus, I removed the rear hatch card to look around at the mechanics of the door release. Turns out that there is a way to release the latch from the inside, so I made a hole in the right location so that could happen. Never needed it thankfully.
This is complete, utter negligence on the part of automakers who use this bullshit. Every single mutherfucking one of them should be sued into oblivion.
Agreed; also the government needs to catch up with this. The fact that there’s a visible glowing release handle required to be in the trunk, and there’s not one required in the actual passenger compartment if the handles aren’t mechanical is absurd.
Coincidentally, Tesla’s CEO is somehow gutting the government offices that would oversee this sort of regulation.
Offloading the engineering and safety to the customer, one more Tesla innovation
They’re just lowering the entry price by raising the exit price
Oh, Telsa didn’t invent that process. You can read a book from 1965 about that written by a guy with the initials R.N. He even ran for president once.
Cool solution, but I’m starting to think Tesla’s Venn Diagram of nerds, engineers, and techies (no offense to anyone intended) is creating niche problems that are really universal problems.
For as long as I’ve been riding in cars, many people have kept emergency hammers in the glovebox. This is really no different. In many accidents, the doors are so deformed, they’re jammed shut and the window becomes the best way to escape — Tesla or not.
So in any crash bad enough to require this device, the windows are probably broken and the doors probably won’t open, regardless of method.
Don’t forget you can’t open the glove box without power since it’s touchscreen operated.
Obviously we need a pry tool (mounted on the dashboard) for opening the glove box so you can retrieve the hammer.
Problem solved!
Except the pry tool mount is a magnet with a fail closed mechanism, so it won’t unlock if the battery is dead.
What you really need is a pry tool mount pry tool, mounted to the inside of the centre console.
Probably and always are a long way apart in the real world.
I have a resqme zip-tied to the right control stalk on every vehicle I own. I figure that location should be easily accessible in an emergency and less likely to be compromised than the outboard stalk.
https://resqme.com
Unfortunately a lot of cars these days are going to laminated side windows for noise reduction. This makes them effectively shatterproof, so a rescue tool like that won’t be able to make a usable opening. I’m not sure if theres a practical escape tool that will work with laminated windows other than a hammer or sawzall.
Wow those are super cheap, no reason not to have a few. Thanks for the tip.
This is a very good idea that will save lives, and more folks need to learn about it. THANK YOU for writing about it knowing you’re going to have to brave (and police) the usual rancorous Tesla discussion*.
*Yes, I’m one of the major offenders on that front.
I guess Tesla would shift any liability to the driver if so one is killed or injured by not knowing how to open the door manually, but what about when Tesla begins operating Cybertaxis “next month”? I guess summoning one means accepting arbitration, but what about additional passengers? Will Texas CyberLaw impose the terms and conditions on anyone who gets in one, regardless of whether they agreed or not? I get that a parent might be considered to have agreed for a child, but what if someone orders a rolling pile of CyberDeath for a nanny or grandparent who accompanies the child?
I’m assuming their PR response on Twitter would be RTFM
The simple fact that you have to read the owners manual (which must be accessed through the car’s touchscreen) to locate/use a piece of emergency equipment that potentially must be used in a panic situation demonstrates a complete failure of design.
For all the faults of the traditional manufacturers, I can’t see them designing something this blatantly dangerous to their customers in this day and age (in the past, yes, I could see it, but no longer).
Seriously, did not one person on the design team say, “Ok, but how does a passenger who has never been in this car before get out quickly after a crash?” And they thought a little poorly labeled cable behind a trim panel was an obvious answer?
And now my mind if flashing forward to a mandatory FAA-style briefing for everyone, every time the car is turned on, before it’s allowed to move. Literally 5 minutes of kitschy, soulless, repetitive safety procedures as the only way to avoid a full lawsuit and complete shutdown of Tesla.
One can dream.
Imagine having to do that every time you got in an Uber or “robotaxi”
Please remove the safety placard from the seat back pocket and review.
Seat back pockets have been eliminated as a cost-cutting measure. ????
Peak Silicon Valley move to solve a problem that doesn’t exist by creating a problem that you now need to solve with a solution that was already implemented.
If only the tech bros could invent a door handle that worked mechanically by default, requiring no power and working the same way in both emergencies and everyday situations.
Silicon valley, save us!
Hey now, they’re busy working on underground transit in cities! No one has ever done that before!
The obvious solution is a separate battery in a hardened “black box” in the door that operates a completely separate electric release, which pops a red button up in the event of an accident so the passenger can easily press it to escape! -technerd answer
Great thinking, there’s a reason we pay you $600,000 a year!
Can we also incorporate some sort of small explosive charge to cut the hinges and blow the door off and out of the way… activated by the red button of course.
It’s eco-friendly! No electrons were enslaved to open this door!
That’s an edge case. We’ll write it up as a feature request and schedule it for a future sprint if there’s enough buy-in from the Product Owner and stakeholders. Just to manage expectations, we don’t discuss product road maps externally, but if you sign up for our text alerts, we’ll reach out when the beta goes out.
/vomit
You could also just…not drive a Tesla in 2025.
The best way to get out of a Tesla is to never get in one to begin with.
I’m now seeing tons of anti-Elon stickers on Teslas here in DC…the most common one is “I bought this before Elon went crazy”. While I get that not everyone is terminally on car blogs, it was abundantly clear years ago that he had some…unorthodox (trying to be generous) beliefs.
I don’t necessarily expect everyone to do research into the ethics of every single thing they buy because ain’t nobody got time for that…but when it comes to absolutely massive purchases like cars and a quick Google will pull a bunch of skeletons out of the closet I don’t have as much empathy for embarrassed owners.
Elon wasn’t always what he is now but even back in the twenty teens it was pretty obvious that he wasn’t a very good guy or anything close to what the media portrayed him as.
“I Bought This Before Elon Fired His PR.”
Honestly, in a media environment where the major players will happily invent reasons to fellate him in the headlines, maybe he was better off without it.
Marcel Proust is credited with saying “never meet your heroes.” He should have said think before you declare someone a hero. There’s always a lie in there somewhere and usually worse.
I think in general it’s an incredibly safe bet that anyone who’s a billionaire has done absolutely wretched things to get there.
Concur.
Richard Branson may be an exception?
He doesn’t seem like a bad guy. Gates has also had a pretty decent arc. When he was younger he definitely kind of embraced the Lex Luthor vibes but I think as he’s aged he’s reexamined his priorities and is finding ways to use his wealth for good. Even as a dyed in the wool hater of the ultra wealthy I have to begrudgingly respect it.
Edit: I also never had an issue with Jim Irsay (RIP). He inherited billions and more or less just spent his entire life having fun and nerding out on his interests. I’m a guitarist and always followed what he was adding to his collection. I always thought it was super cool that he’d have famous musicians hang out and play his instruments rather than lock them up and throw away the key.
He also cared pretty deeply about his community and you never heard a bad thing about him from anyone that played or worked for the Colts.
I was going to suggest Bill Gates as well. I met him a few times and he was always very down to earth and encouraging about the products I was developing. He is one of very few people who have donated at least half of their personal wealth to charitable purposes. The Gates Foundation has done a lot of good in many parts of the world.
Lots of those in Portland as well.
There are now myriad better EV options with piles of incentives. I also can’t imagine that many of the folks who own Teslas are hurting for money, since they’re $50,000+ vehicles that were widely considered luxury goods until fairly recently. If you really care you can probably find your way into something else.
I don’t disagree, but with how far the values have tanked I think most people are hoping an upswing happens before they dump them
Those stickers/magnets are so dumb. They are all over the place here in the Boston area as well. If you use your logic then no one would be able to buy anything, most companies have done something to offend someone, somewhere. The fact that people can’t get over that he is just one person, and not the whole company, or can separate the two is even more annoying than the labels on the cars.
I’m not sure I agree with that one. No corporation is ethical and I think it takes a certain amount of unchecked ego and ruthless/antisocial ambition to rise to the rank of CEO in this end stage capitalist hellscape. But I don’t think Akio Toyoda, Mary Barra, Jim Farley, etc. have done anything that’s even remotely on par with all the horrific shit Elon has done.
I wouldn’t want to have a beer with any of them, but I think Elon legitimately hates humanity…or at least large portions of it.
No other car company is “one person” more so than Tesla. The Board is friends and relatives, and Musk controls it, and micromanages it (when he’s not micromanaging the US government).
And he’s drawn a lot of hate. People with the cars want to separate themselves so others know they don’t wear swastika armbands and give Nazi salutes.
I mean I hate to say that, for all I know, most of what I use comes from a company full of psychopaths.
The thing about Musk is doesn’t have skeletons in a closet, he painted them in Day-Glo paint, put them outside, shone a black light spotlight on them and live streamed them on X.
Absolutely
This is a genius solution.
I like how you Wargamed that. 🙂
How about a nice game of chess?
It’s insane to me that there is no FMVSS standard for physical door releases. There’s a standard for trunk releases and the glow-in-the-dark requirement for enclosed cargo areas, a thing that must save 3’s of lives a year, while actual physical door handles are completely fair game. And it’s not like the US’ current government is going to do a damn thing about it with Elon sticking his fingers in every pie he can find given Tesla is the biggest offender of this.
A rule was never made because it was never expected things would get this stupid.
No one was ready for the pace or scale of the enshitification of the last decade
Every safety regulation is written in blood.
Maybe if we write a nice letter they’ll stop, something like this:
“Dear Tesla Door Handle Engineers,
When they said be the change you want to see in the world, this is not what we meant. Stop that.
Sincerely,
Everyone”
There is a standard, however, to make sure the door stays shut.
Tesla owners are literally the dog surrounded by fire in the “This is fine” meme.
So what you’re telling me that Tesla not having redundant systems is a feature not a bug. And now we can accessorize our own safety features.
Two things:
-They could have redundant electric systems, but without power (say, a serious accident), it will not work anyway. At least, they added a mechanism, they could otherwise just offer a spark plug to break the glass (which would be a great joke until the first time it goes wrong).
-It is always a feature. The problem is always the way the user uses it. Otherwise, is just an “unintended feature”. Because the user is using it wrongly.
Spark Plug is ironic.
It is always the big knob behind the button.
It is a problem that people doesn’t understand how to use something.
Even if it seems obvious how to use, people will try to use it the wrong way.
Like the chap from that old one guy, one cup video. (Don’t bother looking for it if you don’t know what it is. Just take my word as true. Your life will be much better, trust me).