In the past, laminated glass was usually installed in the windshield, with side and rear windows being tempered only.
The difference is that tempered glass is per-stressed so that when it cracks, it shatters into many tiny and dull pieces. Laminated is the same thing, but with layers of plastic sandwiched with layers of tempered glass. Laminated glass will still shatter, but will be held together by the plastic layers.
In an emergency, small improvised, or purpose built tools meant to shatter tempered glass will be useless if the glass is laminated.
dragontamer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The problem wasn’t the glass.
The problem was using wtf touchscreen controls to shift between drive and reverse. Mrs. Chao confused the two then died.
Shitty UI kills another person.
HogsTooth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I still blame Jeep for thinking a rotating selector was a good idea for a gear shifter. RIP Anton Yelchin.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I thought his jeep issue was that P on the dial didn’t actually guarantee the parking pawl was engaged to stop it from rolling. Separate from the lack of positive engagement with the P position, more about the physical disconnect between the two.
dragontamer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
At least you can still feel the rotating Jeep shitty gear selector.
Touchscreen controls on a Tesla have no feel or feedback. It’s a touchscreen.
christophski@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Sounds like both things are a problem?
dragontamer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m more inclined to blame Tesla’s electronic locks and confusing manual override before blaming the windows though
Quick, do you know which panel to remove to find the non-electronic manual override in a Tesla? Car is sinking fast and the electronics just shorted out from the lake.
fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social 8 months ago
Probably doesn’t help that Teslas guess which direction you want to go in and you have to change it if it’s wrong. autoblog.com/…/tesla-new-gear-shifter-guesses-dir…
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, only on the newer ones tho. My buddy got I wanna say a 2022? And it doesn’t have that. He specifically said if it did, he wouldn’t have bought it.
nxdefiant@startrek.website 8 months ago
she could have not floored it into a lake, but maybe I’m the only person that doesn’t go balls out when they’re backing out of a spot.
YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Accidents happen, and people panic. Maybe she thought she was pressing the breaks and made the problem worse. I highly doubt anyone would do it intentionally.
bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I don’t know about you, but in these parts we spin the gear selector to random, floor it and yell “JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL!”
yildolw@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hertz stopped offering Tesla rentals because Teslas are designed to go balls out when the pedal is lightly touched and too often that involves straight into a wall or a lake
skyspydude1@lemmy.world 8 months ago
One pedal braking makes this a bit tricky for people who are not used to it and/or panicking. You spend decades of your life having a seperate “go” and “stop” pedal, and then suddenly they’re the same one. You have your foot over the accelerator, lift a bit and feel the deceleration as if you’re pressing the brake.
Suddenly, something darts behind you, and your brain says “I’m feeling deceleration, so your foot is on the pedal that stops things” and you slam on it like you would the brake pedal. I’ve done it with the clutch/brake after hopping back and forth between a manual and automatic a few dozen times after a very long day of vehicle testing. Muscle memory is a powerful thing and your brain’s mental model of the world is not always correct.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
personally i like to sit on my bike and just topple over, then start crying
arin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Imagine if water spilled or leaked from the window onto the touchscreen, try using a wet smartphone… Could be touchscreen device malfunction or misclick causing the Tesla fatality
skyspydude1@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Good thing Teslas are known to not leak at all
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 8 months ago
You seem to have key detailed information on how the accident happened. Care to share?
dragontamer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/…/ar-BB1jAkIW