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It's not nearly as often as you read about it. This headline for this exact crash I've personally seen posted daily on lemmy for at least 2 weeks from various sources to different communities.
This one keeps coming up again because now there is a lawsuit, so there’s new news now related to the same crash. Still there are quite a few stories like this.
Meanwhile the other 600 car fires every day are ignored. Tesla isn't the only, or even the first car company to have these kinds of powered door handles, they're just the most recognizable to the average person, largely because of these articles. But those other 600 fires don't have anything to do with Musk or Tesla, so no one cares to report about it.
And in turn, the average person gets the reinforcement that EVs are dangerous, catch fire and trap occupants constantly, so legacy auto gets to have their anti-EV talking points reinforced by the media looking for that ad revenue from clicks.
Don't get me wrong, it's definitely an issue. But none of these things are unique to Tesla, or unique to EVs despite how the media reports try to focus the issue that way.
The door handle + hard to find release + battery flambe combo is the unique point here.
Oh and coupled with Tesla's inability to manage public relations.
Their email response:
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yeah they have that shit on lockdown
This happens on any car that relies on battery power to activate the door lock. This is shit engineering. A few Corvette owners died this way.
The NTHSA should have banned this a decade ago, but now they have been gutted by Big balls.
It's a different matter to have one of the 600 fires pepr day that you can just open the door and flee, and another to have one of the 600 fires and get trapped inside and burn to death.