You’d think so, but who do you think pays huge sums of money every year to be allowed to sell death traps to the public?
EnderMB@lemmy.world 5 days ago
A lot of people are giving Tesla shit here, but surely there should be regulations in place to ensure something like this isn’t allowed to be released for public use?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 days ago
SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
You’d think.
cRazi_man@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Every eventuality can’t be covered by regulation. Sometimes you realise something can go disastrously wrong after someone is hurt. I wouldn’t be surprised if this never happened to other mechanical cars to never need regulation. Sometimes you need to wait for a stupid product to exist for someone to make a rule saying “stupid products shouldn’t exist”.
TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 5 days ago
Fun fact, a Tesla spokesperson describing the car’s features was talking about how they wanted something on the car that didn’t make it to final release and said “But sadly we couldn’t get that law changed”, which does… kind of imply that they lobbied the regulatory bodies into allowing this piece of shit to exist.
skysurfer@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah, Tesla is certainly not the first ones to have this design or issues with it:
CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Sure you’d think you wouldn’t need regulations that state that there should be a manual way to open your car door. Have we gotten that stupid? Why in god’s name would you not have that option? What happens if the battery dies and you can’t start the car? You can’t open the door to pop the hood to even jump it. With all the brilliant people that work at a company like Tesla and no one thought there should be a way to open the door from the outside if there’s no power?
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 5 days ago
They do have a manual way of opening the car door if memory serves. It’s just in a hard to find place where a toddler wouldn’t think to look. Either way it’s a bad design. Nothing wrong with manual door handles imo.
CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 5 days ago
They have one on the inside but not the outside. That’s why the mom couldn’t get into the vehicle or the firefighters and they had to take an axe to the window. How are you supposed to pop the hood to jump start your car if the battery is dead and you can’t get in the car because the battery is dead? It’s just a stupid design to not have a manual override.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 5 days ago
I believe they also have a jump port for exactly that purpose. If that doesn’t work you are stuffed though, as I believe has happened to some cyber truck owners.
T156@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The toddler was strapped into the seat at the time, so chances are that they would not be able to find and open the door that way anyhow.
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 5 days ago
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True, a toddler wouldn’t think to look directly on the door handle. Not really the type of place you’d expect to find a door release you know
rooster_butt@lemm.ee 5 days ago
You keep replying with this shit to every comment. How do you expect a toddler in a child seat to use that lever? Mind you I do not close car doors with my kids inside due to my own paranoia of losing the keys or something, but it’s a horrible design flaw that you can’t open the car from outside when the 12v battery is dead.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 5 days ago
That’s fine for opening the front doors in the model 3, but have you seen how to open the rear doors in the cyber truck? That’s what I was referring too.
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TeenieBopper@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Something something “these regulations are written in blood” anecdote something something.