Even if she did receive warnings, she’s a grandmother who easily could miss one of the many messages on the car. It’s just bad design.
ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Even if she did receive warnings, she’s a grandmother who easily could miss one of the many messages on the car. It’s just bad design.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Lead acid batteries are notoriously hard to predict when they will fail. Other OEMs also fail at this often.
Tesla upgraded to lithium 12V batts some time ago, which are much more predictable and last 2-3x longer.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What other oem hides the mechanical latch?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
What makes you think I was referring to the latch?
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You said other manufacturers fail at “this” referring to the 12v battery dying, but the context here is a child being trapped in a car when that battery fails. If the 12v battery fails on any other car you simply pull the handle and the door opens.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
What? No they aren’t. They almost always fail on a curve of power and voltage loss.
Also, I didn’t look it up, but I’d be very surprised if the model Y tesla didn’t require (suggest and oem?) an AGM battery. It’s still lead, but due to how they’re made they can’t get a dead short in them like older regular lead acid batteries can once they get old, although it still isn’t very common for it to happen.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Yes they are. I used to test them for a living. It’s just a best guess.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
No they aren’t. They degrade before they fail. If tesla wanted to provide a warning of a failing battery that pretty much always worked it could have wired in a load test and went off voltage drop under a heavier load.
Testing if batteries are good or bad does not qualify a person to chart out battery degradation.