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Sample size: Very few Type of evidence: Anecdotal Statistical relevance: Tiny

• darkwater 3y ago
  Obviously, it was implied by "My reality". Anyway the only real safety issue I can see is that rear doors doesn't have such a system, but I guess the theory here is that there should never be a case when someone is left alone in the rear seat (i.e. Tesla's "dog mode" explicitly tells you that it's just for pet, not meant for humans)
  • earnestzombie2 3y ago
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  • lawn 3y ago
    Is it that hard to imagine that kids might have trouble finding the switch? Or that the person in the front are rendered unconscious and now the persons at the back are stuck?
    • darkwater 3y ago
      I think you are mixing scenarios here. The initial scenario was that the car had no power (and anyway locks are powered by the LV battery, not the HV one), which is not a safety emergency situation. In that case, the person driving can get out of the car using the mechanical lever and open thee rear door(s) using the normal external handle. In case of an emergency, where no power is available anymore, well ,we are most probably talking about a serious enough car crash. In that case, AFAIK, Tesla - just like any other car manufacturer out there - has a system that trigger airbags and unlock doors when detecting a crash. But yet in that case, the ones in the rear seats has less chances to escape from the car, that's probably true.
• phkahler 3y ago
  Type of evidence: first hand account. That's better. The singular of data is not anecdote. People make this "mistake" in order to dismiss or minimize someone's experience.
  • lawn 3y ago
    You're right. Of course, you labeling it as a "mistake" is also made in order to dismiss or minimize my comment, when it was in fact an honest mistake.
  • xracy 3y ago
    I find people are much more likely to over key on their first-hand accounts than to rightly consider how small their sample-size is. So in terms of common "mistakes" I see, I think yours is the larger. "First hand accounts" are never unbiased, and are rarely well-collected data. I'm not saying I don't believe OP here, I think this is probably the exception to the rule, but I think you're just wrong. The plural of anecdote isn't data, because it hasn't been collected in any meaningfully standardizable way. Edit: If you need evidence this is clearly an anecdote: > every single passenger who had never been on a Tesla before always uses the manual release handle instead of the right button, and I get a warning message on the screen and the risk of breaking the window glass. OP is probably assuming that everyone who gets it correct has been in a Tesla before. But given the 2 options and how close they are together, I'd be pretty surprised if no one had gotten this correct on their first try. One of the buttons is much more visible than the other. So either OP's sample size is small enough to be uninteresting, or hyperbole. Either way, it's not data, and it's wrong to treat it as such. What it does tell us, is that this probably isn't a problem for everyone but that hardly matters to the people who can't figure out how to get out of a Model 3 right now.
  • frumper 3y ago
    Data collection method: journalist seeking out personal anecdotes that match the story they want to tell.