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.
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You got that right, something isn’t right. ANY car that’s been in a significant crash probably won’t have doors that open. It doesn’t take much for a car door to get jammed shut. I’d try the door real quick expecting it to not work and have to break out the window, that’s usually how it goes for the 99.999999% of us that don’t have the jaws of life in our trunk.
You mentioned batons - the heel plate on my Asp is a pointed hardened steel glass breaker.
The car can drive itself in a crash situation, but not provide a fire escape. You could say the designers screwed the pooch.
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/02/28/tesla-fiery-crash-closer-look-door-locks/
Seems I read that the airbags didn’t deploy in this crash?
I don’t recollect that one. I’d like to know how any investigation went.
Hmm. Well they got a few billion Chinese to spare so I guess a few battery eaters won’t be missed.
But the driver definitely didn’t get it.
I like that. It’s also a skull-breaker if you have to go that route.
I didn’t think of that, haha!!
Tesla must’ve gotten some red-tagged Japanese ones purchased cheap and no questions asked. Does the case say “Takata” by chance?
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