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> If you use the manual control, it won’t lower the window, which can cause damage.

On a Tesla. Other cars, mostly with similar frameless windows, have this same functionality and have had it for at least the last 15 years and they do so with mechanical releases.

There is absolutely to reason why a purely mechanical solution would be unable to lower the window. Heck, they can use the same engine/latch that's controlled electronically when using the manual handle.

My Toyota 86 has a manual door handle, and it will also automatically lower the window a little too.