Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died

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• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I haven’t has a car with mechanical locks in a long time. I’ve also not had a battery so dead the locks didn’t work.

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  • KnowledgeableNip@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s usually some sort of mechanical release for safety for stuff like this.

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      On the mach E, my understanding is there’s a panel where you hook up a jump box that supplies power to those circuits to allow you to use your key fob to open the door. But there’s no bladed key to manually unlock the car. So technically there’s a failsafe but it’s not ideal. And I agree it ought not be allowed.

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      • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        how the fuck are you going to put power into the thing if you don’t have a charged battery

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      • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, that’s fucking stupid, and requires the electronics to not be damaged in whatever emergency situation you’ve found yourself in to require this external battery override solution.

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    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      From inside sure, most cars have an override in the handle. It doesn’t change the lockout problem.

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      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        From the outside it is with a key.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a Toyota where the electronic part of one door has completely failed. It still opens. You shouldn’t have to break out of your own car.

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yet.

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  • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My wife’s EV has a tiny key that comes out of the dongle, and has a tiny hidden keyhole under the handle.

    I had to Google to find it, but it’s sufficient if power is out. It’s a mechanical lock mechanism like cars have had for a century. As it should be.

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Idiocracy was a prophetic movie, with everything working, eh, like this and planes falling.

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• LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  It is, people are just stupid, can’t be bothered to read, or even wonder what that lever literally right on the door handle is for.

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  • slayback@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s definitely also in the X.

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    • LordKitsuna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, but it’s hidden behind the speaker Grill rather than just right on the door handle all the other models also have some type of covering or otherwise have hidden it it seems only the model 3 decided to put it in a very obvious spot

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      • slayback@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, it’s the exact same as the model 3.

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