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Tesla Owners are Installing DIY Rip Cords to Avoid Being Trapped in Their Vehicles in Case of Fire (fuelarc.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Tesla owners are modifying their cars to be escapable if the car catches fire, because the doors stop working like normal and you need to rely on well-hidden mechanical overrides.

Which... feels pretty dangerous, like that's the worst possible time for the doors to stop working like normal.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I, for one, am baffled.

How didn't this get recalled after the first escapable entrapment death? I could find 12 fire deaths where the occupants were evidently trapped, and that was just my dumb ass Googling for an afternoon for recent cases, I'm sure there's more.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Sarcasm (but also sadly likely Tesla's take): How are you so sure they wanted to get out?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If a new car built by my company leaves Chicago traveling west at 60 miles per hour, and the rear differential locks up, and the car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside, does my company initiate a recall?

You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiple it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C).

A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall.

If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt.

If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fuck I need to watch fight club againThat quote opened my eyes

[–] kambusha 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which car company do you work for?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

A major one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I remember something similar happening with the Delorean DMC-12, and they were absolutely ridiculed for it.

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

And some of those are really horrific. I think in one of the CA crashes, one person was able to be pulled out a window before the battery cooking off got too hot for anyone to approach and help the three others who were trapped and died.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Reading that coverage was fucking heartbreaking. Pointless, stupid, preventable.

And you know what? The rescuer kid and the rescued kid are both going to be haunted by that forever.