Teslas are especially unsafe, and often lock people inside when they fail. This is because Tesla is run by one of the dumbest men who ever lived.
This could be said about any EV ever that uses lithium ion batteries.
Urist@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc 3 weeks ago
U mean there isn’t any manual override at all?
skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
yes but actually no. There’s a hidden pull cord under the bottom mat of the “map pocket” that you have to remove, along with whatever else you were storing in there at the time. That’s assuming the cord hasn’t fallen out of reach inside the door or otherwise become inaccessible during the accident, of course.
The owner’s manual section on “how to open the door if there’s no power” spans 4 pages (viewed on mobile) and has 3 diagrams to illustrate the steps.
(incidentally, opening the frunk with no power is a separate page with ten steps and begins, “To open the powered frunk when Cybertruck has no power, you need a power source that provides between 9V and 16.5V”… it’s like they’re trying to be shit.)
Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc 3 weeks ago
That’s utterly insane wtf.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Petrol of course being famously non flammable.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not ones with real door handles.
Pirat@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
Only if they get into a salt water flood.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No, most doors have fucking handles.
Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc 3 weeks ago
I was mistaken in my assumption, Figured the Tesla would have an obvious clear way to escape quickly without power in an emergency but no.