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Tesla Owners are Installing DIY Rip Cords to Avoid Being Trapped in Their Vehicles in Case of Fire (fuelarc.com)

submitted 2 months ago by KayLeadfoot@fedia.io to c/evs@feddit.uk

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This is really pretty amazing how poorly designed the Tesla doors are, where if the power fails (like in a crash or a fire), you might need to remove the speaker grill or two separate panels to get to the emergency mechanical door release.

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[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ how are any of these things even road legal outside of freedumbland??

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Staggering incompetence in the design. Just absolutely antagonistic disregard for the lives of the back seat passengers.

And this is from a company that bills themselves as Apple-style design geniuses! Like, Christ, make doors that open, THEN break out the black turtlenecks.

[–] jonne 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think what OP means is, why is this legal to begin with. You would think at least the EU would ban something like that, regardless of what Musk thinks is good design.

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

That'd be smart, TBH.

[–] EnderLaw@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Elon can suck my scrote... I bought an early Y.

There's already an emergency release on the door. It's a physical lever.

[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"So now that the doors can't open we should reinforce the windows to be slightly bullet proof so firefighters and bystanders can't get in and you can't get out." Tesla design team

[–] KayLeadfoot@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Elon presiding over the design team, or at least the survivors of his latest purge: GIF and it's pronounced like it rhymes with "Jeff"

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I bought a few of those same pull tags for my race car harness release