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.
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.
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Fuck I need to watch fight club againThat quote opened my eyes
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I remember something similar happening with the Delorean DMC-12, and they were absolutely ridiculed for it.
Sarcasm (but also sadly likely Tesla’s take): How are you so sure they wanted to get out?