Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency.

• p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But partially submerged when 20% of the door is still above water then yes it should be possible to still open the door

  Partially submerged, the door would be very hard to open, due to water pressure. The water pressure needs to fully equalized between the inside and outside of the car.

  Did we learn nothing from Mythbusters?

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  • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought we were talking about manual override to pull the window down…

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As Mythbusters proved, you wait until the car is almost full of water, and then open the door.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not quite. There is a period where water pressure hasn’t built up enough to stop you. They were specifically testing pressure equalization, not that you should wait as a first course of action.

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