Burnend Alive Inside a Tesla as Rescuers Fail to Open the Car's Door

"Open the door" is a standalone manual, as a sentence. If that's not the case, no doubt there's some Aspergers tech nerd involved.

I'd like to see stuff like this elevated to conspiracy to murder through tech-shit means.

> According to the German Automobile Association, manual opening is only possible from the inside, which complicates rescue attempts for emergency services.

The issue, other than complicated internal release, was the lack of an external way to manually open the doors. (e.g.: driver is unconscious with small kids who haven't read the manual)

To them, a wheel is detestable -because it's simple and easy to use, and they've got some idea of a superior complex polyhedron that's of course better and everyone else is dumb for not using it.

It would be good if we could trace whatever technical dog shit killed these poor little kids back to whoever was involved, and... "offer them a non-technical solution to the causal factors".

Meanwhile how many times in one's life as a non-Tesla-owner have you had to explain to someone how to open a car door?

They do say they're a tech company and not a car company, eh?

Are you sure? Wont the internal handle unlock the door by mechanical means?

The door handles still work from the inside, they mechanically unlock the door unconditionally, meaning nobody can be trapped inside even by manually locking the doors.

The exception is if you flip the "child safety" switch which disconnects the inside door handle of the rear doors.

Typically, there are a few different options of things you can enable/disable that have no other menu options. OBDeleven has "one touch apps" that makes this easy...but there is also other ways to do things using the adaptations or long coding.

If you do any work on your own car having something like OBDeleven is pretty much required. You can't even change the rear brake pads without it.

If it's in the US and they have no regulations on this, I don't want to be cavalier but they should reflect on their anti-regulation culture, and Tesla does not deserve to be scapegoated (not a fan of the brand, but I try to be consistent).

Sounds like the same window hammer what my uncle had in the glove box of his 1971 Cadillac, next to his cigarettes and his gun. He said each was for use in different types of emergencies.

Just because it's on YouTube doesn't make it new.

The Model S and X have truly retractable door handles. The Model 3 and Y have flush door handles that you need to push in to get the latch to pull out. As far as I know, the 3/Y handles should work with the power disconnected; although many people who haven't ridden in one don't know that you need to push, then pull, the handle. (And probably won't figure it out when panicking.)

I don't know if there's a way to bypass the S/X handles. My Ioniq 9 has retractable handles, and if you push on one corner of the driver's door handle you can work it out. I don't know about the other doors, and I don't think someone could figure it out if panicking.