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Tesla car fire kills four in France
(timesofmalta.com)
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Hmmm I wonder if a vehicle filled with flammable explodey-gas who just drove over 2 metal signs at high speed would be on fire as well? Would it have gotten the attention that this vehicle had, given that ICE cars burn many times more often than EV's do.
It is a tragedy and should be investigated but these articles have to get off the "It's new so it's bad" bandwagon until the investigators come in. It could have been a flat tire at high speeds that sent the car onto that shoulder and over those signs. There is uneven wear on the tires so on the outside of Regenerative Breaking EV's tires look almost new on the outside but trashed on the inside. If it blew because of that, or some nail on the road then there is no fault on Tesla and the man-boy who runs it. If however say steering went or the airbag randomly went off when the car was at speed my least favourite Martian and Tesla would be culpable.
Until then turn the sensationalism on your stories down to 11.
I'm a fan of EVs, but Tesla lacks ~~security~~ safety and I'm not a fan of it.
It's too complicated to leave the car when power is off for example.
Yep. That's my issue. It's not the fire, it's that it's really hard to get out in a disaster.
The Tesla could just have easily killed four if it crashed into water.
You mean, the mechanical handle present? I'm not sure if older cars over a decade ago didn't have em, but my model 3 has mechanical release on every hinged part. Even the drunk, which no human being would even fit in (I think, I guess a toddler might?).
Do you think the average Tesla driver knows about these? Are they easy to find and use in an emergency? Could they be easily improved?
probably, yes, and improved how, they're just door handles.
If I recall correctly, the manual override for the electric inner door handle is hidden under some panel. Major lawsuit material if you ask me, and irresponsible by the certifying authorities,
FWIW, pretty much every car on the road actually has a switch which completely disables the inside rear door latch.
You recall wrongly. It's totally exposed, available all the time. Lots of people who are new actually activate it instead of the button that lowers the window before opening.
And the passengers on the back seats?
That's Model 3 from the article.
And Cybertruck:
On BMW you pull the door handle twice
Unless it's a coupe, then you don't have rear doors at all...
You mean it is too complicate to open a door handle? You do know those news stories about people getting trapped in their Teslas had to be taken down because you can just open the door, the people who were trapped weren't only stupid, they were locked in a vehicle with the manual that told them how to get out of the car and they never looked at it.
I posted the manual below, so stop lying
Not Lying. The vast amount of the stories of people trapped in their Tesla when they loose power are drivers and are alone. So this is what the manual says the person who is in that situation has to do to get out of the car. You showed the Back Seat. This is what they have to do in the front seat.
They have to throw a simple latch. Worst case if you run out of power, say pulling into a charging area because the last one you planned on using was down and you had to make it on a very low charge, and the people in the back did not know about the pulley system they would have to either get out of one of the front doors or wait in the vehicle for help.
no, it wouldn't. Because the car is not filled with aerosolized explodey-gas, but just flammable liquid contained in a robust tank. it is not explosive. It can catch fire, but not simply from impact. You'd need a hole in the tank lower than the current fuel level and an external ignition source. Even if you shoot the gas tank directly, it will not explode. It is physically impossible for it to explode.
Puncture one of an electric car's cells, and it sets off a chain reaction. The whole car very quickly goes up in flames.
A hit car engine is an external ignition source, and gas cars go up in flames daily in the us
But if the media doesn't report it, lemmings don't know it exists.
"Robust"? Clearly you've never driven an itlian made car!
Alphas tanks are literally made out of plastic. You can poke them with a basic screwdriver.
Yeah it won't go boom, but point being, they're not robust and go in flames fairly often too...
The fact that you are taking the words "explodey-gas" as a serious reference to the fire and not the form of propulsion that ICE cars use and take it seriously makes me wonder about your media literacy.
If I made a metal cage for rich people that locked and set on fire, I would go to prison for life probably. This guy does that and sells it to them
It's all about the marketing, baby
Some reasons why they probably would be fine in a normal car
Central computer controls everything. A crashing computer means a crashing car
Electronic door locks. When you crash youre going to have a hard time opening the door
Shatterproof windows mean if your door won't open, you're BBQ
If the accident was powerful enough to rupture the battery with the metal signposts, it could also open up the gas tank and set it on fire as the car was going in excess of 65.
Its not about EV vs ICE its about having a dumbass design the car
The manual overrides are hidden away so anyone who hasn't trained on using them is dead meat. also you probably just got a concussion from crashing your car, so they're probably useless
Shattering windows are a safety feature that were removed for what reason exactly?
The transportation secretaries sister died because of these super predictable issues with teslas
I love the idea of electric vehicles but that doesn't mean an idiot should design them
OK, on the designed by an idiot, or in this case concepted and OK'd by an idiot, and the rest of the engineering and work of making that work was actually left up to good engineers, we both can agree on.
The problem is that the engineers are not in control, and if they say one of the bosses ideas is bad they get fired.
the second point shouldn't be true, the handles of the front doors should mechanically unlock the door as they are opened. the sub-humans in the back blew what they were getting into.