Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: DesertRhino
Not frivolous at all. Without being checked out and educated in rear seat passenger escape, nobody would discover that rear seat emergency latch.

Isn't that what reading the owner's manual is all about?

As I noted above, Corvettes have had electrically-operated door latches since 2005 and also feature manual releases. But, you've got to read the manual to know where to find them.

Who buys a car, then doesn't read the manual?

20 posted on 10/06/2025 7:54:38 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ]


To: Ol' Dan Tucker

Wealthy children?


39 posted on 10/06/2025 8:48:06 AM PDT by Unassuaged (I have shocking data relevant to the conversation!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies ]

To: Ol' Dan Tucker
Who buys a car, then doesn't read the manual?

Who rents a car an doesn't read the manual? - almost everybody

Car manufacturers have had standards for a century, including door handles. Users of a product have a reasonable expectation of things to follow such standards. Tesla designers chose to deviate from such standards and people died.

48 posted on 10/06/2025 10:06:34 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies ]

To: Ol' Dan Tucker
Who buys a car, then doesn't read the manual?

Who, as a passenger riding in a car, doesn't download the manual and read it while the car is burning?

49 posted on 10/06/2025 10:22:44 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Charlie Kirk: "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies ]

To: Ol' Dan Tucker

“Isn’t that what reading the owner’s manual is all about?”

The backseat passenger doesn’t normally read the manual. Also, Tesla doesn’t have a manual...it’s in the screen display.


63 posted on 10/06/2025 8:25:51 PM PDT by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies ]

To: Ol' Dan Tucker
Who buys a car, then doesn't read the manual?

99.999999 % of the time, the passengers.

64 posted on 10/07/2025 1:16:04 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (FTL)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson