You have ford doing all sorts of weird stuff to recall over their mach e that has no exterior handles, no key cylinder. If you are outside the car and the car is dead, then you have to first get and wires out of the front bumper, then attach a jump pack to pop the hood, then remove some covers then jump the 12v battery, then you can open the door.

Meanwhile I had both my fib dead and a dead car battery in my 2015, and I .. popped off the cover for the backup key cylinder and just opened the car ..

The issue isn't flush fitting handles, it's electronic flush fitting handles

FTFY

Tesla was the first to make it popular in modern vehicles iirc

IIRC, the Vette had them in the 60's!

I thought it should be easy to do a mechanical flush handle. At the very least, a mechanical backup way to open the door in one step should be mandatory

As much as I like the look of flush door handles, I don't like the idea of reaching my fingers inside of a thing that opens and closes electronically.

How many miles of range would we lose by having regular old fashioned door handles, anyway?