There’s so many parts to this story that any one of them could solve this…
A: Not being a billionaire with a lake on your property to drown in, close to where you leave your car
B: Not buying a car where you push one button or use the touchscreen to change gears. (What is it with the volume knob shifters and buttons of modern cars? I don’t drive these days but the last car I drove still has the shifter with the question mark shaped track, I never had to look at it to know which one I’m on)
C: Not buying a Tesla whose design decisions make saving you from drowning nigh impossible.
Or having safety regulations that would make glass easy enough to break, the type of shit the GOP would vote against. Or car doors able to manually open (once the car is full of water, the pressure on both sides is equalized). But yeah, this whole thing is such a freak accident filled with irony.
Turns out, the safety regulations are the exact opposite! Beyond Tesla, all new cars are required to have laminated windows in the US.
Also I’d never get a Tesla nightmare spy device, but the doors in the front have a manual open that’s so easy to open, people have to warn passengers not to use it. (It can break the window lawl)
Is there any car that isn’t these days? seems like everythings got a gps enabled computer with onstar and a blackbox that phones home to ensure you’re allowed to drive the vehicle
Is the mechanism right in between a potentially lowered window pane and the other side of the door or something?! Still, sounds like she could’ve gotten out if she knew and wasn’t panicking.
The windows roll down a little bit when you use the electronic door open button. If you use the physical open lever, the windows don’t roll down… uhhh, design?
My safety concern:
I think owners of the pictured models^ have to be trained if they’re to be expected to reliably think about, find, and operate the emergency releases.
These photos are taken from an angle a driver’s head is unlikely to be at!
BTW, haven’t heard of windows breaking (conceivable!), instead Tesla warns about the door seal:
Let the car fill, breathing as much as you can from the air bubble on the roof. Once full, the pressure will equalize and you can open the door.
That said, one less billionaire.
I mainly wrote this in case any reader runs into this later in life.
EDIT: This does not work with Teslas as their door mechanisms are electric and the manual override locations are given below by @Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 's comment below
Doesn’t Tesla have seamless windows that roll down automatically? It’s likely the water shorted out the car meaning you’d have to apply enough pressure to the door to force the windows out of the frame.
You don’t need to roll down or break the window, just open the car door once the pressure equalizes.
Edit: Note this does not work with Teslas as they use electrical door opening, if you need the manual overrides, check out @Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 's comment below
Believe it or not, you can’t. The mechanism you normally use to open the door isn’t mechanical - it relies on the electrical system! There is a mechanical override, but most Tesla models put it in completely different bizarre and hidden places
I don’t own a Tesla, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out they have a design flaw that prevents them from opening if the interior of the door gets wet
I feel like all of it could be solved by just having enough brain cells to not reverse into the water? Were you really parked less than 5 ft from the water? Such that you had literally no time at all to notice the vehicle was going the wrong way and stop
There’s so many parts to this story that any one of them could solve this…
A: Not being a billionaire with a lake on your property to drown in, close to where you leave your car
B: Not buying a car where you push one button or use the touchscreen to change gears. (What is it with the volume knob shifters and buttons of modern cars? I don’t drive these days but the last car I drove still has the shifter with the question mark shaped track, I never had to look at it to know which one I’m on)
C: Not buying a Tesla whose design decisions make saving you from drowning nigh impossible.
Or having safety regulations that would make glass easy enough to break, the type of shit the GOP would vote against. Or car doors able to manually open (once the car is full of water, the pressure on both sides is equalized). But yeah, this whole thing is such a freak accident filled with irony.
Turns out, the safety regulations are the exact opposite! Beyond Tesla, all new cars are required to have laminated windows in the US.
Also I’d never get a Tesla nightmare spy device, but the doors in the front have a manual open that’s so easy to open, people have to warn passengers not to use it. (It can break the window lawl)
Is there any car that isn’t these days? seems like everythings got a gps enabled computer with onstar and a blackbox that phones home to ensure you’re allowed to drive the vehicle
No idea, but Tesla is the most spying-est. no idea what I’ll get when my current car dies. Hopefully it never does. I love it very much.
Is the mechanism right in between a potentially lowered window pane and the other side of the door or something?! Still, sounds like she could’ve gotten out if she knew and wasn’t panicking.
Billionaires are all intelligent and hard working, if that feature wasn’t just fake news she would have used it.
Sure thing, Elmo.
The windows roll down a little bit when you use the electronic door open button. If you use the physical open lever, the windows don’t roll down… uhhh, design?
That thing can be super hidden!
My safety concern:
I think owners of the pictured models^ have to be trained if they’re to be expected to reliably think about, find, and operate the emergency releases.
These photos are taken from an angle a driver’s head is unlikely to be at!
BTW, haven’t heard of windows breaking (conceivable!), instead Tesla warns about the door seal:
Or even regulations that require a physical shifter so you can’t accidentally fuck it up by swiping a touch screen to go forward or back…
What are you? Some kind of Communist?
Much easier:
Let the car fill, breathing as much as you can from the air bubble on the roof. Once full, the pressure will equalize and you can open the door.
That said, one less billionaire.
I mainly wrote this in case any reader runs into this later in life.
EDIT: This does not work with Teslas as their door mechanisms are electric and the manual override locations are given below by @Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 's comment below
Doesn’t Tesla have seamless windows that roll down automatically? It’s likely the water shorted out the car meaning you’d have to apply enough pressure to the door to force the windows out of the frame.
You don’t need to roll down or break the window, just open the car door once the pressure equalizes.
Edit: Note this does not work with Teslas as they use electrical door opening, if you need the manual overrides, check out @Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com 's comment below
Believe it or not, you can’t. The mechanism you normally use to open the door isn’t mechanical - it relies on the electrical system! There is a mechanical override, but most Tesla models put it in completely different bizarre and hidden places
Oh my bad, didn’t realize Teslas were that shittily designed. Going back to edit my original comment.
I don’t own a Tesla, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out they have a design flaw that prevents them from opening if the interior of the door gets wet
They do.
I feel like all of it could be solved by just having enough brain cells to not reverse into the water? Were you really parked less than 5 ft from the water? Such that you had literally no time at all to notice the vehicle was going the wrong way and stop