Posted on 12/11/2022 3:28:58 PM PST by lowbridge
A British YouTuber was recently left stranded on the side of the road for hours after his Tesla shut down and trapped him inside.
Tom Exton, a YouTube personality who focuses on the collection of cars and watches, was traveling to London in the Tesla that he bought 5 days prior when the incident occurred.
Exton said he started out with close to a full charge and after only 15 minutes into his trip, his Model Y forced him to pull over, Business Insider reported.
He said on Twitter that the screen inside “glitched” and he “couldn’t do anything.” Minutes later “all power to the car was gone,” he told Insider.
Exton said he was left inside the “dark car in [the] pitch black on the side of a busy road in freezing temps, with [a] dying phone battery.”
Since Teslas require power to unlock, he said he “couldn’t open the door by conventional means,” and “had to use the emergency manual-override latch on the door.”
Doing so “somehow broke the driver’s window,” Exton said.
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Ah ha. Thanks.
Buy a car with no mechanical door handles?? Darwin candidate.
At least it didn’t burst into flames.
I haven’t seen Tesla Gator on here defending Tesla prison doors...
You planning on breaking into someone’s house in your underwear?
I assure you I could use that hard point to hammer out enough glass to get out of a cyber truck. No Rivian could stand in my way, unless maybe an armored glass version. Which would probably have a 25 mile range.
I was just riding in a VW SUV and as far as I can tell there was no manual override for electric door locks. I guess you would need to carry a sledge hammer in the back seat if you owned one. The things car manufactures get away with these days just amazes me.
>You know what a roller or straight bearing is?
I have a small lift in my garage. What do you think?
I’m not sure if this is covered by FMVSS regulations or not.
LOL! Dang! Ya found me out. Only I was planning on wearing a tux. I always feel I’m at my best when I’m in top hat and tails.
“as far as I can tell there was no manual override for electric door locks. I guess you would need to carry a sledge hammer in the back seat if you owned one.”
Online the other day I went down some rabbit hole and found a site with info most people aren’t aware of.
One thing was that the headrests in cars are removable for the purpose of breaking out windows if necessary — using the two metal posts that go down in to the back of the seat. I don’t know if it’s true, but FWIW...
I didn’t know you had such a device. Have you ever thrown one of those things at a car’s window? ( obviously I’m talking about a junked car, naturally.)
That’s very interesting about headrests.
Hopefully I never need the info, but....
Being small, old, and weak I doubt I could kick out a side window.
At least it didn’t catch fire too.
And they couldnt sat link a diagnosis since he had no power. Hand crank windows or spring loaded center punch. 😏
Nopre, for the Cyber Truck, you need a ball bearing and a slingshot.
Excessive soy milk slows the brain's synapses.
“Open the pod bay doors, Elon”.
He was lucky it didn’t spontaneously combust when it locked him in.
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