I asked what it was; "Car window breaker and seat belt cutter. One of these baby's would have saved Mary Jo Kopechne's life."
I responded: "But then we might have had a second President Kennedy."
Posted on 10/24/2019 3:40:43 PM PDT by fruser1
A doctor in Florida burned to death because the battery in his Tesla burst into flames and the car's futuristic door handles wouldn't allow a police officer to rescue him, according to a legal complaint.
Dr Omar Awan died in February after his Tesla hit a palm tree.
...part of the design of the Tesla Model S is to retract the door handles into the car and they then "auto-present" and pop out when the car's key fob is detected nearby.
However, the handles malfunctioned and people were not able to open the doors
Dr Awan had no broken bones or other injuries resulting from the crash.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Maybe it takes battery power for the retracted door handles to “auto-present”.
Maybe there was no battery power because THE BATTERY WAS BURNING UP THE CAR!
It’s a mistake to bet your life on technological gimmickry.
Sooner or later all technological devices fail in one way or another.
The electric golf kart boyz will be around to defend the damn things.
I asked what it was; "Car window breaker and seat belt cutter. One of these baby's would have saved Mary Jo Kopechne's life."
I responded: "But then we might have had a second President Kennedy."
“If Tesla was smart, they would recall all the cars and change out the doors. ...”
If Tesla was smart, they would recall all the cars and open a frozen yogurt shop, where Elon could sit and get stoned in the corner all day.
Unsafe at any speed.
Roll up windows...rotary phone...but dang, I miss the wing Windows...greatest invention for the automobile
Ejection seats comes to mind.
Neil Young being a dumb ass on many non-music things....
Agree. Also, after all these decades of California living and making millions of our money he is still a Canadian citizen.
Former bandmate Graham Nash went through weeks of citizenship classes, studied and stood nervously and proudly with others from various walks of life at a swearing in ceremony to become a U S citizen years ago.
Stephen Stills and David Crosby kidded him about being so nervous and then celebrated by going straight to a hot dog stand. They chipped in together and paid for a hot dog to give him and said “Now you are an American citizen. This is what we Americans do.”
Either that, or the Obama judge, with all their engineering prowess, orders Tesla to add or build emergency hydrolic ejection seats.
Most electric golf carts use deep cycle batteries. They are not prone to explode like lithium batteries.
“Dying with a small carbon footprint”?
He IS a small carbon footprint.
Maybe he could break the entire window, unhook the drivers seatbelt, and pull him through the window.
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If the driver was uninjured as the lawyer claims, why couldn’t he do that himself once the window was broken?
Not one that works at Tesla. It would be an obvious design error, and Tesla did not make that error. See post #51.
I had a friend who was locked in his Cadillac. He said he had to kick his way out by breaking a window.
Failure mode:
No power to electric door handles.
Egress blocked from inside.
Failure mode:
No power to all electric door handles.
Egress blocked from outside.
RPN = 10
Remedy:
Sense and provide Mechanical Override
Tesla is going down!
Apparently they like to bite batteries in China to make sure they are real, like Yosemite Sam biting a gold nugget.
Kings dead drown to death in a swimming I met him a couple times funny guy
Honest mommy it was on auto present
What if your incapacitated and access must come from an outside first responder?
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