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How is this legal? Who let these vehicles on the road?
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.
Sarcasm (but also sadly likely Tesla's take): How are you so sure they wanted to get out?
A major one.
Fuck I need to watch fight club againThat quote opened my eyes
I remember something similar happening with the Delorean DMC-12, and they were absolutely ridiculed for it.
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.
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.
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
Wow that's a extremely stupid shifter control
Stupider than the "volume knob repurposed as a shifter" from Jeep
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.
Elon