Four people, aged between 26 and 32, tragically lost their lives in Toronto when their Tesla crashed into a pillar and burst into flames. Unfortunately, a malfunction prevented the car doors from opening.A woman in her twenties, the fifth passenger, narrowly escaped after a bystander broke a window to free her.
  • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
    23·
    2 days ago

    Tesla has faced criticism in the past for the design of its manual release levers, which are considered poorly designed and unintuitively placed

    Calling it poorly designed is a massive understatement. The manual release is a wire that is hidden behind a hidden panel. A guy made a video showing how to do it and he struggled to do it despite having practiced a few times in advance. The chance of pulling it off while the car was on fire would be very, very low

    • zhunk@beehaw.org
      2·
      19 hours ago

      I have a friend who won’t put his kids in the back of his Tesla because of this.