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c/enoughmuskspam · by tazeycrazy@feddit.uk · 235d

Tesla's Doors not doing what they are suppose to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lFzqBt3z0w

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/42029342

Hopefully the windows can be easily broken to allow the occupants to leave?

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Drusas@fedia.io · 8 pts · 235d (2 replies)

"Now, the back seat is a scary part."

Narrator: So, in the front seats, they're by the handle. In the back seats, they might be under the rug or behind a speaker grill or behind the trim on a door. Or, I actually found one in the Model Y--it was in the door pocket under a plastic flap.

How is this legal?!

I have been in a Tesla exactly once, as a back seat passenger. I could not figure out how to open the door and I was not on fire at the time.

ZDL@lazysoci.al · 5 pts · 235d

Regulations in the USA, at any rate, are made for the convenience of rich folk getting richer, not for the safety of citizens. I don't know what the state of these are in Europe. Do the European-sold Teslas have sane manual door opening?

tazeycrazy@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 234d

I would assume that insurance companies (the ones that do the crash tests) will need to look at the insurance cost of doors that can't open. Start taking stars off as it is save for the occupier in the initial crash but they end up dead anyway

ZDL@lazysoci.al · 2 pts · 235d (2 replies)

Hopefully the windows can be easily broken to allow the occupants to leave?

Well the Cybertruck's windows seem easily broken at any rate.

But if you have to break windows to exit a car that has basically a slightly slower-speed bomb as its power source, you're toast. Literally.

tazeycrazy@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 234d (1 reply)

Not easily enough. Most other manufacturers have the rear and door windows made of sugar glass. first thing to brake in a crash and allows crews to get in and occupants to get out. This was because in a crash the door frame can be damaged and stops the door opening. I know rescue crews have tools to cut laminate windows like this but I doubt it has any practical benefit and makes it harder to self evacuate.

ZDL@lazysoci.al · 2 pts · 234d

(Protip: The bit about Cybertruck was a mocking joke.)

altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 234d

Just pay your monthly door subscription! LOL... Get a Toyota.