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Father and son incinerated after ‘self-driving’ Tesla suddenly slammed into tree (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world -3 points 20 hours ago

While I understand the outrage, this is misleading…..

yes the rear door emergency releases suck
but there were two people in the car so most likely in the front. The front emergency releases are very different, depending on model year. Recent years are very accessible

What’s important for this crash are the front door emergency releases and lack of an outside emergency release. The front door releases are probably fine, depending on model year, but if the crash is bad enough to damage the battery pack, they weren’t getting out under their own power. We also don’t know whether the outside help would have been in time but we do know the electronic latch failed by that point so there was no way to open the door from the outside