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Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Won't Open (futurism.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This happened in Toronto on October 24th

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why isn't there a manual mechanism for the door? Why didn't the passengers use an emergency glass hammer? Why isn't there an emergency release for the door?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I'd expect that the passengers may not have known about the emergency releases. It's also possible the releases failed, but all of them?

The article does a poor job of mentioning that those releases are standard to the vehicle. It's discussed elsewhere in this thread too, where they also provided the Model Y's manual.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-AAD769C7-88A3-4695-987E-0E00025F64E0.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

When my friend was riding in a tesla they just assumed the emergency latch was the proper way to open the door and pulled that one instead, didn't even see the button.

Edit: also note, some model Ys don't have that rear emergency one. Guess you could climb out of the car using the trunk latch.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6PbRBbIGnv4