A Tesla driver and two kids were burned alive after crashing into a tree because rescuers were unable to open the electronic doors, according to police.
Teslas have electronic doors that are opened by pressing a button rather than pulling on the handles, which are retractable.
However, in a crash, the car’s power can fail, rendering the doors useless.
I have one I know exactly how they work. To be clear I think Musk is a fool and I would never buy a tesla again because of his Nazi ties. But the statement in that article about handles is wrong/simplified/misleading. On the outside, the handles lay flat; but almost all car’s outer handles will not be usable when a door is locked. On the inside, the doors have electric buttons to open that could be disabled in a crash. But there are easy to use manual handles too. They are obvious and people use them by default until you tell them to use the electronic button (which prolongs the life of the window gasket by lowering the frameless window a bit before opening). In the back, there are manual overrides but they’re hidden; however this is no less safe than having the child lock on for back door which is a normal feature for cars.
You need to look up ‘impact detection/sensing door locks’ which is a safety feature that unlocks the doors in the event of a crash. So no, most modern cars exterior handles are not useless after a crash. For the few areas Tesla is ahead of other manufacturers, they are behind in many others. Tesla has been losing ground every year.
That so much extra crap to work around a design choice that doesn’t really bring anything beneficial to the situation. These issues are basically unheard of on most other vehicles. Meanwhile there’s an article seemingly every few months about more people dying in Tesla’s because the doors wouldn’t open.
Every time anything goes slightly amiss with a Tesla, the media play it up because people like you who hate Tesla want to read about Tesla failure, so it drives engagement. Many many other cars have accidents where people get stuck in the car. There are other cars that have frameless windows and electronic handles, but you never hear about them not because they’re any safer, but because no one cares about them.
I don’t particularly hate Tesla. I even looked at buying one years ago. The reason I didn’t was because they have new manufacturer issues and logistics problems. Due to their CEO, I have no interest in them at all anymore.
When I was looking their build quality was atrocious. They were also impossible to get in my state as they don’t allow self owned dealerships. Which is all Tesla was doing then. So you had to leave the state to buy one, bring it back, register it, and then pay sales tax.
It’s not that other manufacturers are better or don’t have issues. They’ve just been around longer and have already had and corrected a bunch of the minor issues that Tesla is still dealing with.
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I have one I know exactly how they work. To be clear I think Musk is a fool and I would never buy a tesla again because of his Nazi ties. But the statement in that article about handles is wrong/simplified/misleading. On the outside, the handles lay flat; but almost all car’s outer handles will not be usable when a door is locked. On the inside, the doors have electric buttons to open that could be disabled in a crash. But there are easy to use manual handles too. They are obvious and people use them by default until you tell them to use the electronic button (which prolongs the life of the window gasket by lowering the frameless window a bit before opening). In the back, there are manual overrides but they’re hidden; however this is no less safe than having the child lock on for back door which is a normal feature for cars.
You need to look up ‘impact detection/sensing door locks’ which is a safety feature that unlocks the doors in the event of a crash. So no, most modern cars exterior handles are not useless after a crash. For the few areas Tesla is ahead of other manufacturers, they are behind in many others. Tesla has been losing ground every year.
Yes Teslas have that too. They have a redundant power to the doors to minimize failure. But we’re talking about the case where that fails, no?
That so much extra crap to work around a design choice that doesn’t really bring anything beneficial to the situation. These issues are basically unheard of on most other vehicles. Meanwhile there’s an article seemingly every few months about more people dying in Tesla’s because the doors wouldn’t open.
Every time anything goes slightly amiss with a Tesla, the media play it up because people like you who hate Tesla want to read about Tesla failure, so it drives engagement. Many many other cars have accidents where people get stuck in the car. There are other cars that have frameless windows and electronic handles, but you never hear about them not because they’re any safer, but because no one cares about them.
I don’t particularly hate Tesla. I even looked at buying one years ago. The reason I didn’t was because they have new manufacturer issues and logistics problems. Due to their CEO, I have no interest in them at all anymore.
When I was looking their build quality was atrocious. They were also impossible to get in my state as they don’t allow self owned dealerships. Which is all Tesla was doing then. So you had to leave the state to buy one, bring it back, register it, and then pay sales tax.
It’s not that other manufacturers are better or don’t have issues. They’ve just been around longer and have already had and corrected a bunch of the minor issues that Tesla is still dealing with.