Ugh. Dying in a fire sounds absolutely horrible.
Hopefully the brain passes out fast. Undeniably gonna be some pain and terror before that happens though.
RIP
And fuck Tesler. If this ain't a reason to avoid these cars, I don't know what is.
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How many times has this happened?
I feel like I read this sentence twice a month at the least.
Why are they allowed to exist? Who buys them?
Details reveal the desperate attempt to save CEO Angela Chao, trapped in a submerged Tesla
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/03/14/angela-chao-tesla-accident/72969299007/
Angela Chao was Senator McConnell’s sister-in-law.
Then I thought that weird considering this ...
This was at a Golf club. She had three times the legal limit of alcohol and she drove shit faced into a pond.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68622898
Not the story people are looking for.
There have been other people to die in cars without easily reached mechanical door latches.
They should be outright banned. Just like how cars without seatbelts and airbags aren’t allowed to be sold anymore. Or dangerously tall truc… of never mind.
her death was suspicious as fuck,, consider elaine chao mcconnels transactional wife(not even romantic) has ties to the CCP.
It's probably not as often as it feels like. A headline about a Tesla fire gets more traction than other vehicle deaths. That being said, the problem is that both the fire and being trapped shouldn't happen, period. Even if it's a rare event.
often enough that i know they have some hard to spot emergency door handles
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.
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.
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.
Oh and coupled with Tesla's inability to manage public relations
Their email response:
💩🔒
yeah they have that shit on lockdown
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.
Who buys them?
People that really want attention. Just like most other expensive flashy cars.
I think you suffocate first, in a normal fire anyway.
In Germany, these vehicles are not even allowed at all because of safety reasons... Think about that...
It's due to other reasons though. Mainly for its profile and sharp edges. The other Tesla cars, such as the popular Model 3 and Y use similar door handle mechanisms like the Cybertruck and are allowed to be sold in Europe. This exact freak accident can happen with any of those models as well.
Germany has crazy requirements a car must fulfill to drive on the streets. So it kind of surprises me that a potentially failing door lock is fine.
Safety for pedestrians.
Pedestrians, or how US politics call them: NPCs
Can't sue if there's no evidence. I hear those battery fires burn hot.
And all that data they constantly collect and send back to their servers suddenly stops collecting seconds before any crash, for security reasons.
TBF this crash was most likely the drivers fault, drugs and alcohol were involved. But drugs didn’t cause the doors not to open when the firefighters were standing there trying to rescue people. Except for the ketamine musk was on when he dreamed up this monstrosity.
nypost classic murdoch propaganda