'But will that glass breaker work on the newer laminated windows?' — Tam Donovan

This past Thursday I featured the ExiTool, purported to help you escape from your car in the event you need to make an emergency underwater exit.

My longtime San Francisco Bay Area Crack Research Team©®™ member Tam Donovan weighed in this morning: her comment appears in the headline up top. 

I asked ChatGPT-4o* to join the discussion; below, its reply.

Up top, a YouTube video showing that the usual emergency car exit tools which work fine on tempered glass do not work on laminated glass.

Quora weighed in thusly:

My Crack Research Team©®™ will continue to look into this issue**: stay tuned.

In the meantime, do the counterintuitive thing if your car plunges into water: ROLL DOWN THE WINDOWS ASAP. 

Once a car is submerged, not only will electrics stop working but also the outside pressure of water on windows will make it impossible to lower them manually.

*The best $59.99 (for a one-year all-access subscription) I've spent in as long as I can remember.

**Notwithstanding clifyt's dismissive comment yesterday that began "Today in WHAT ARE OLD PEOPLE CONCERNED ABOUT...."