• CannonFodder@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I have one, I know exactly how it works. Yes the back door system is stupid, but no worse for safety than any car with the kid locks on the doors.
    The emergency internal handles in the front are exactly where you think they’d be. If I don’t tell people how to open the door with the button, they pull the emergency handle. Of course if someone is used to pushing the button and it doesn’t work, they might panic, and forget but if they’re unconscious it hardly matters.

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      23 hours ago

      You realize you are just trying to convince yourself you have a safe car, right? I know you need a big ego to want a tesla in the first place, but its okay to say you learned new information and want to change your mind.

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        7 hours ago

        I feel pretty safe in it. Ego has nothing to do with it. When I bought it a number of years ago, it seemed like a good way to be better for the environment, help propel innovation and have something fun and different. I certainly will never buy a Tesla again because of Elon, but I think the car’s pretty good. I feel much safer in it than in our Mazda 2 that would be squished like an empty pop can in a collision between two SUV’s.

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          7 hours ago

          Well yes. And I know trying to explain these facts in a room of Tesla haters isn’t going to get anywhere. I certainly wouldn’t buy another Tesla because of Elon, but I really think the car itself is quite well made.