Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash

boaratio@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• DiagnosedADHD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are manual releases but they’re hidden. They need to be more obvious because these cars are rented to people and obviously the owners aren’t taking the time to figure out where they’re at.

  I would also think just having secondary power packs in each door would help in the event power is cut to ensure the doors can continue to function for a few minutes while also a speaker could explain how to use the emergency release if none of the doors are working.

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  • Zron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or, how about this: it’s a door, have it work like every other car door for the last 70 years.

    Redesigning stuff to make it “cool” and “futuristic” is fucking stupid and is clearly not safe. Doors have handles, the handles are pulled to open the door. Keep it simple.

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  • Ultraviolet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The reason given for hiding them just makes that fact worse. It’s for “aesthetics”.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In the future nobody reads “the design of everyday things” apparently

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      • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In the future nobody reads “the design of everyday things” apparently

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  • h4lf8yte@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eject the doors with explosives as soon as the vehicle velocity is zero and fuck everyone else. Tumbler style.

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    • dch82@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Awesome way to enter the cinema though

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      • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or at a red carpet premier: pull up, doors blast off, step out in style over the mangled bodies of the paparazzi…

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly Tesla should be sued over this

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  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The front handles aren’t hidden. They’re so obvious everyone I take in my car tries to use them first if I don’t tell them.

    Back doors is a whole other story.

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    • Sporkbomber@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s if they have them. Apparently some models of the Y don’t come with manual back door releases.

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Back doors is a whole other story.

        Thats what this means. The back seats are hit and miss depending on the vehicle.

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• Undearius@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I drove in a Tesla Model 3, the owner told me not to use the big pull handle because it was the manual release, and instead to use the button at the top of the grab bar.

  I don’t know about the other models but the manual release was a more obvious way to open the door than the intended way.

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  • Sporkbomber@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Only for the front seats, and on something like the Y not all models even have manual releases in the back. The ones that do have them covered with a mat and no indication where they are.

    On the model Y you need to removal a speaker grills to manually release the doors in the back.

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• rando895@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, imagine if the air brakes failed on a transport truck and instead of them defaulting to on, they no longer worked…

  Or if your Anti-lock braking system defaulted to no brakes instead of brakes without Anti-lock

  Or if the power goes out an elevator just falls to the ground

  Or if…

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