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Things I would never do: • buy a car where the doors and not mechanical • buy a car with a huge screen in the middle • drink and drive • do cocaine
But the mechanical latches are not accessible from the outside, and they should be. That's why I call them half mechanical.
Note, linked article has no details. This sublinked article has some https://www.newsweek.com/3-dead-after-tesla-cybertruck-crash... It's completely unclear to me from this article if they failed to open because of computer control or mechanical damage. The car was on fire, I think, that's not exactly a trivial crash (though the 2nd article a fire chief says it didn't look like heavy damage to cause a fire) And they…
Easier said than done when you have to shuttle water with tenders as we often do.
Things I would never do: • buy a car where the doors and not mechanical • buy a car with a huge screen in the middle • drink and drive • do cocaine
Teslas have half mechanical door releases: If you're inside the vehicle it's easy to open the doors without power--at least the front doors. The mechanical latches in the rear doors are difficult to find. But the mechanical latches are not accessible from the outside, and they should be. That's why I call them half mechanical.
I’ve heard a lot of complaints about the safety of non-mechanical doors. But are these auto-locking mechanical doors any better?
It hit a tree at like 70-80mph - no car is going to have doors that work properly after the entire frame is deformed like that, it’s not about the handles
Things I would never do: • buy a car where the doors and not mechanical • buy a car with a huge screen in the middle • drink and drive • do cocaine
Teslas have half mechanical door releases: If you're inside the vehicle it's easy to open the doors without power--at least the front doors. The mechanical latches in the rear doors are difficult to find. But the mechanical latches are not accessible from the outside, and they should be. That's why I call them half mechanical.
Weird way to end the story. I mean, what happened next? She died of the fire I presume?
Stupid af to do drugs and drive, very sad for everyone involved.