Tesla owners are modifying their cars to be escapable if the car catches fire, because the doors stop working like normal and you need to rely on well-hidden mechanical overrides.
Which… feels pretty dangerous, like that’s the worst possible time for the doors to stop working like normal.
At this point I don’t know why anyone is buying those death-traps. For me any benefit from the self-driving feature is outweighed by the safety and poor build quality issues.
You’re not missing anything on the self driving side… Teslas only use cameras, so can never and will never actually be self-driving. Not competently, anyways.
Because risk is statistically low and fuel cost savings are more tangible than believing you’re going to crash, let alone die. Humans are not logical. We know most conservatives don’t believe in EVs and outright liberals don’t want to support Musk, so who keeps buying them? Despite the reports of slumping sales, my area is continually renewing them despite being deeply blue. There’s another category: the real silent majority. The apathetic majority that’s being selfish and diminishing the weight of their actions.
“Selfish” implies they somehow gain something by purchasing one of these death traps.
Minimal fuel and maintenance fees. Flashy iPad in the dash. Quiet ride. Pretty good acceleration. I say fuck Tesla at this point because Elon just couldn’t stay quiet and just couldn’t stay reasonable with the product, but Tesla is the brand that put EVs Into the common household.
I don’t know why anyone is buying those death-traps.
I’ve got good news, then! Fewer and fewer people are buying the illegal immigrant’s dangerous and overpriced swastikar, with new buyers dropping and trade-ins rising every day as public support for the emerald mine nepo baby nazi dwindles daily.
Instead they’re buying F150s and the like that are just as dangerous to everyone else on or near the road.
Take a look at comma.ai and openpilot to see whether your car is compatible. I’ve put about 100k miles on my comma running on my Honda Civic. Then you get a working car that’s not a deathtrap and improved self driving features.
I recently got a Volkswagen with adaptive cruise control, and I’m absolutely in love with it. Never needed the car to fully drive itself, that’s what public transport is for…
Cope cord.
Huh, this reminded me of Five Nights at Freddy’s and how even with murderous robots around, there is a safety precaution where the doors open incase power goes out.
if only there was an easier way of not getting trapped in a car…
Yeah but that’s really hard to do and has never been invented before!
I would not expect US auto regulations to improve for at least 3.5 years, minimum.
Another reason not to buy a Tesla
Worship a Nazi get cooked in a oven. Justice is always served. Thank God, all men die.
How is this legal? Who let these vehicles on the road?
Probably the same person who let them on the road with a screen-swipe control for shifting with NO indicator of the gear you are in.
Wow that’s a extremely stupid shifter control
Stupider than the “volume knob repurposed as a shifter” from Jeep
I did not realize how fucking stupid the gear selector was. I’m even angrier than when I started, and I started pretty angry.
Those are only the newer versions from the last year or so. They used to have regular fucking stalks. Even after they swapped the wheel for the yolk.
*Yoke
Price of eggs
Elon
I, for one, am baffled.
How didn’t this get recalled after the first escapable entrapment death? I could find 12 fire deaths where the occupants were evidently trapped, and that was just my dumb ass Googling for an afternoon for recent cases, I’m sure there’s more.
And some of those are really horrific. I think in one of the CA crashes, one person was able to be pulled out a window before the battery cooking off got too hot for anyone to approach and help the three others who were trapped and died.
Reading that coverage was fucking heartbreaking. Pointless, stupid, preventable.
And you know what? The rescuer kid and the rescued kid are both going to be haunted by that forever.
Sarcasm (but also sadly likely Tesla’s take): How are you so sure they wanted to get out?
I remember something similar happening with the Delorean DMC-12, and they were absolutely ridiculed for it.
If a new car built by my company leaves Chicago traveling west at 60 miles per hour, and the rear differential locks up, and the car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, does my company initiate a recall?
You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiple it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement ©.
A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don’t initiate a recall.
If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don’t recall.
Which car company do you work for?
A major one.
Fuck I need to watch fight club againThat quote opened my eyes
You don’t tend to write a rule stating “passengers must be able to easily escape the vehicle in an emergency” until some tech bro makes it hard.
Thing is though, this happened with the Delorean back in the day, so it’s not a new problem at all.
Oh did it? I hadn’t known it had difficult to open doors. Was it by design or just something to do with the gullwings?
It’s far dumber than that. The door release was electric, and the alternator wasn’t powerful enough to run everything on the vehicle. So, if you were driving at night, with your headlights, wipers, heater etc running, you’d be slowly running your battery down, until the voltage got too low to run the ignition, and the vehicle would shut off.
And you’d be trapped in a dead vehicle on the side of the road, in the dark, with no lights.
Regulators figured nobody would be stupid enough to mess that up and no paragraphs are needed to make things explicit. Then came Elon who thought that technically correct is the best kind of correct so he made this abomination of a manual release.
That’s just for a few models and just on the front two doors, the rear you have to remove a panel you also have to know exists because it’s not marked in hivis. The fun one is that Tesla says you break your warranty if you actually use any of the manual releases including the y’s really accessible front one.
Front and back directly accessible for model 3 and y.
Used it. Can’t tell if it was used, so warranty still intact.
https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-A7A60DC7-E476-4A86-9C9C-10F4A276AB8B.html
No they’re not. The front and rear are almost identical procedures to both the cyber truck and the y.
Also yes they can, they’re built tamper evident for warranty reasons.
You’re right. In the new models they changed the rear doors. In the older models it is the same as front.
Bad design choice. Should be easier to get out in an emergency.
It’s probably easier to get one of those ceramic window breakers and get out that way. I’m pretty sure the rip cords are actually quite hard to pull.
They use laminate glass on the side windows as well as windshield on some models for noise reduction. Traditional window breaking tools don’t work on them. It’s basically a tombmobile.
Wow holy shit. So if you get submerged it’s just straight up a death sentence. Just when you think they can’t get worse…
R.I.P. Cord
OH NO I LOLLED
These stupid cucks…
Do they have one for the passenger(s)? And give a little safety briefing before they head out like on airplanes?
You need to grab the ripcord with your right hand, conveniently placed above the heart, and thrust it forward and up.
Fire? What about the ticking time bomb batteries under you?
