Disclosure: I work for a car company, not on this.

If you want to be prepared for automotive incidents:

1. Check your mood and intoxication level before and while driving. Mood is more important than everything besides drugs and alcohol.

2. Left turns (or across traffic as applicable) are dangerous. Take extra care while turning left (or across traffic).

3. Using screens at night is bad for everyone, but especially above the age of 40, both focus and iris (light balance) response take longer. Using a screen changes your focus and blows out your night vision.

4. If your car has pushbutton electronic door openers, PRACTICE opening the door without battery power.

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themafia 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> If your car has pushbutton electronic door openers, PRACTICE opening the door without battery power.

Please stop building cars with this "feature." We honestly should make them illegal.

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qwertytyyuu an hour ago | parent [-]

I think the removal of standard manual doors is the actual crime

	▲	RedShift1 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		And we as consumers should also take responsibility and simply not buy these vehicles.

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AlotOfReading 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One of my pet peeves about screen UIs is that they're worse than they need to be for night use. Modern dark themes are blue-heavy, which negatively impacts both pupil response and bleaching more than colors of the same luminance with more green and red.

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PunchyHamster 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Funnily enough the first comment in the article is "oh yeah, if you're in Tesla good fucking luck, their doors fail and the releases are incredibly hard to find in emergency"

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QuiEgo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The front ones seem easy enough, the rear ones are a lot harder

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/2020_2024_modely/en_us/GU...

	▲	dan353hehe 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		whoa. > Not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors. How is that even allowed?
	▲	karlgkk 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The front ones vary and certain models are atrociously designed. If you get in an accident and have a concussion, and adrenaline, add a 10x difficulty factor This is almost certainly what killed those kids in piedmont

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dunham 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I didn't find them hard to find (in the front seat). When I first got my car it kept complaining because I instinctively reached for that lever instead of the button. The computer claimed I could break the window if I kept using the manual lever, and I had to figure out where the button was.

Not saying the car is great, just that I found the door lever easily. I'd still rather have real controls (and a real sensor) for the wipers and the reliance on software and software updates makes me very nervous. You can't even open the glove box without a voice command or touch screen (as far as I can tell).

	▲	codazoda 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Same. I’ve only ridden in one, but the owner wasn’t super happy when I instinctively pulled the manual lever to open the door.

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underlipton 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>3. Using screens at night is bad for everyone, but especially above the age of 40, both focus and iris (light balance) response take longer. Using a screen changes your focus and blows out your night vision.

On that note, if anyone with Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, et al. would like to revisit the way their apps handle ride assignment - specifically, the way platforms generally refuse to assign orders when the car is stationary, but then inundate contractors with notifications that must be responded to immediately when the car is in motion - it'd be much appreciated.

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modzu 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

if you coudlld just remove the screens except for nav/media thatd be great

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NedF 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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