▲ | poopsmithe 10 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yeap, saw that coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQxm6n7SdvE Apparently there is a manual release lever, which this driver did not know about. But really, I think it's a bad design to have to think about a second way to open the door. When people panic, they fall back to training, and that training is just opening the door using the handle they always use. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | xeromal 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I was in a total crash of my model 3 in a hit a run. I was pitted from a crazy driver that was driving the wrong way and I ran into a retaining wall. I panicked trying to open the doors as there was smoke everywhere and I think the car was burning but the fog of an accident is pretty intense so I ended up breaking the window out with one of those little tipped seatbelt cutters and crawled out. That stupid override is completely useless when you're in fight or flight. The Model S did it better where the override is just pulling the door handle all the way out. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | adrr 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There's no manual release on my model 3 for the rear passenger doors. Only front doors have it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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▲ | randycupertino 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There also was Mitch Mcconnell's sister in law, shipping billionaire Angela Chao, who drunkenly drove into a pond on her property and couldn't get out of her Tesla. Interestingly, her own sister was the Head of the Department of Transportation when the model she died in was approved. https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/angela-chao-death-texas-tesl... > “The night was chilly and very dark, with no moon, so rather than walk, Chao got in her Tesla Model X SUV for the four-minute trip back to the house. > The account of what happened to Angela Chao that weekend is based on interviews with people close to Chao and her family, county officials who were briefed on what happened or were there, as well as reviews of law-enforcement documents. > Within minutes of saying her goodbyes, she called one of her friends in a panic. While making a three-point turn, she had put the car in reverse instead of drive, she said. It is a mistake she had made before with the Tesla gearshift. The car had zipped backward, tipping over an embankment and into a pond. It was sinking fast. Could they help her? > Over the next several hours, her friends, then the ranch manager and his wife, and then paramedics, and firefighters and sheriff’s deputies rushed around and tried to break the windows, find an escape hatch or any way to get Chao out of the car. Somehow an executive who made her living on the sea was drowning in a stock pond within sight of her home.” | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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