Numerous Tesla owners say they’ve been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.::Numerous Tesla owners say they have been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.Teslas come with manual door releases, but they can be hard to find

  • db2@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I hate to be the voice of reason here, but if you get inside a powerful device to pilot it you should at minimum read the directions first.

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      1 year ago

      I hate to be the voice of reason here

      But you could read the article first…

      Exton followed the instructions for the manual release to open the door, but he said this “somehow broke the driver’s window.”

      • rtxn@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        That’s the tax. “You want to get out of your crippled car and not have a heat stroke? Go buy a new proprietary window from GlassX.”

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        1 year ago

        IIRC Teslas roll the window down slightly when you open the doors, and this doesn’t work if the car’s dead.

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          1 year ago

          Lots of cars do this. My old boss had a 350Z in like 2009 that lowered the window when you opened the door.

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        1 year ago

        Yes that’s a risk, but would you rather have a broken window or be caught in a burning car? More important it still works after a power failure.

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      Have you read your entire car manual? Mine’s like 200 pages, no way I’d remember everything even if I did read all of it. It’s best used as a refefence when you need to do something.

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        1 year ago

        If there was a weird procedure to open the doors I’d read that part… and anything else that isn’t standard or obvious too.

    • zurohki@aussie.zone
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      1 year ago

      I bought a new car recently, and I looked up how to get in, open the hood and jump start it if it has a dead battery, how to get in and start it with a dead keyfob, etc before I ever took delivery.

      A bit of knowledge turns a major problem into a 5 minute problem. That said, it sounds like following the directions and using the manual release didn’t work very well.