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Sounds like this dude was not versed on the safety features of his own car. In case of electrical failure there is a large, easy to grab and pull, mechanical d
by natch 5y ago
Sounds like this dude was not versed on the safety features of his own car.
In case of electrical failure there is a large, easy to grab and pull, mechanical door release shaped and positioned similarly to door releases on most cars.
Super intuitive even once you are in fight or flight mode.
How do I know it’s super intuitive? Pretty much every passenger immediately finds it if I don’t first ask them to instead use the electronic button.
So my guess based on the article is that when he “threw his weight against the door” he didn't realize, and maybe still doesn’t even after the fact, that his hand naturally grabbed that handle which unlatched the door.
- meepmorp 5y agoYeah, can you believe the idiot didn't remember to use the mechanical door release on the brand new car electric car he'd just gotten? Especially when it was suddenly on fire; I mean, who would panic a situation like that?
- TheParkShark 5y agoStill works like a normal car door. People go into shock and panic over stuff much smaller than this.
- natch 5y agoSarcasm isn’t helping. We don’t know for certain because that’s the quality of reporting we get in this world, but putting the available information together it seems he was able to find the handle and open the door. He experienced some panic of course, which is to be expected when there is fire. Meanwhile, dozens or possibly hundreds of gas cars also caught fire on the same day, with causes like road hazards puncturing gas tanks, but most of those incidents don’t make the headlines, because they are not Teslas.
- inglor_cz 5y agoTesla is an expensive car purported to represent the future. Of course its catastrophic failures are going to attract attention. And that is OK, because negative attention incentivizes Tesla Corp. to improve its cars.
- natch 5y agoYeah I wasn’t complaining, just observing, so I agree with your last point. But I disagree about the expensive part. The up front out the door price seems high, but you save so much in other ways that it ends up having a lower total cost of ownership than a mid priced car like a Camry, for me at least. YMMV.