Periodic reminder on Tesla safety:

mekka okereke :verified:

Periodic reminder on Tesla safety:
If you can read this, I am stronger than you. There are ~150 people on earth stronger than me, and you are not one of them. I am not strong enough to break a Tesla window from the inside of the car. So you definitely are not.

If you are in a Tesla, and the car catches fire or falls in water, and you don't know how to manually open the door, you are going to burn to death or drown.

Do you know how to manually open a Tesla door?

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112067191029270020

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mekka okereke :verified:

No, a glass punch tool will not help you.

I am strong enough to break regular glass with my bare hands. I can and have done this. I am strong enough to break tempered car window glass with my bare hands. I can and have done this. I can't break laminated glass with my bare hands. I can't do it with a crow bar. Not quickly enough anyway. Neither can you.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2HxWn6eP74

The only way out is to know how to open the door via the manual release. Again, do you know where the release is?

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mekka okereke :verified:

You all know that the word "full" in "Full self driving" is taking a lot of creative license.

You all know how hot a lithium fire burns.

You will know that electric doors can fail in crashes or floods.

So don't act surprised when you see that report that Teslas have the most fatal crashes per mile of any car brand.

I still ask every parent that drives their kids around in a Tesla if they know how to open the door manually. I have only once met a parent that did know. (Shout-out YB Chu!)

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Ben Tasker

@mekkaokereke IIRC one of the models (Y?) also doesn't have manual release for the rear doors so as well as knowing where the release is, you need to know to get the kids to crawl through from the back

undead

@mekkaokereke

Jesus H. ..., laminated glass? My family held onto their cars with the manual roll down windows forever because of the risk of drowning while driving on the levee roads in NorCal.

So, fun fact. Probably nobody is getting those front doors open underwater.

Laminate power windows are a freaking death trap. The only way you are getting out of that in a serious crash is with specialized power tools.

undead

@mekkaokereke
Oh, and this is from safety training by Sacramento Fire Dept for people who land in one of the many rivers surrounding that city:

You always climb out through the back doors. This is because the vehicle will tend to sink nose first. The front doors will quickly become unopenable, but the back doors will rise out of the water for a little bit, so you can at least get the doors or windows open and exit the vehicle that way.

But those front doors will be nearly impossible to open once the water goes about halfway up the door. And the only safety exits being the front doors on a Tesla is what makes it a death trap.

Matthew Miller

@undead @mekkaokereke

Well, also, the thing were you need to check the manual to figure out how to manually open the doors.