Crash into water is a thing, and it kills about 400 Americans per year. You do need to open the windows immediately and exit the vehicle through a window if it happens in order to survive.

Don't tell your wife, but there are whole youtube channels on this. They go around searching for missing people in bodies of water. They find more missing people than I would've thought.

It seems like the real solution to the retention pond problem isn't skipping electronic door locks, it's STAYING OUT OF RETENTION PONDS

The premise of this logic is wholesale problematic.

You can use the same logic and say:

The real solution to seat belts is to just not wreck your car

The real solution to stair rails is to just not fall down stairs

The real solution to fire alarms is to just not light your building on fire

...etc

Same reasoning/logical framework applied to different problem areas.

Which is hilarious because:

A. Virtually all electronic locks can ^also^ be operated manually.

2. By the time you're deep enough to prevent operating electronic locks, that door is not going to open, simply because of the pressure differential.

But electronic locks don't stop you from opening the door. Or it shouldn't I pull the handle door opens up.

there are all sorts of people that have gone into retention ponds only once in there life.They didn't come back out alive.