Honestly, this seems more like incompetence. They hired tech bros to make a car, not safety engineers. How these cars got through safety regulations is beyond me.

no they probably want you to die after the accident so that you can't tell people how the auto drive feature drove you into the building

But how else would Tesla sell futurism to its customers? Door handles and keys are old tech, we need 21st century tech, at all cost!

Having now driven basically all the EV vehicles available in my country, from the byd range to Hyundai, Nissan and Tesla, Tesla is just a straight mess of a vehicle by comparison, and don't even get me started on the Tesla indicator thing. Oh and they feel cheap on the inside, even the plaid and other high end ones. Lol

I think she just added an extra word. Tesla does make the best electric car that is currently in space, because none of the other manufacturers have shot one up there yet.

Renault are killing it with their current EVs, Kia and byd are pretty good alternatives

Tesla’s advantage was their charging network and that advantage evaporated when Musk opened the network to all other cars so he could slurp up that NEVI money (the money that Trump is ending).

Now there are multiple better alternatives to Tesla.

That's just for a few models and just on the front two doors, the rear you have to remove a panel you also have to know exists because it's not marked in hivis. The fun one is that Tesla says you break your warranty if you actually use any of the manual releases including the y's really accessible front one.

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.

Probably the same person who let them on the road with a screen-swipe control for shifting with NO indicator of the gear you are in.

You don't tend to write a rule stating "passengers must be able to easily escape the vehicle in an emergency" until some tech bro makes it hard.

Regulators figured nobody would be stupid enough to mess that up and no paragraphs are needed to make things explicit. Then came Elon who thought that technically correct is the best kind of correct so he made this abomination of a manual release.

OH NO I LOLLED

I don't know why anyone is buying those death-traps.

I've got good news, then! Fewer and fewer people are buying the illegal immigrant's dangerous and overpriced swastikar, with new buyers dropping and trade-ins rising every day as public support for the emerald mine nepo baby nazi dwindles daily.

I recently got a Volkswagen with adaptive cruise control, and I'm absolutely in love with it. Never needed the car to fully drive itself, that's what public transport is for...

Take a look at comma.ai and openpilot to see whether your car is compatible. I've put about 100k miles on my comma running on my Honda Civic. Then you get a working car that's not a deathtrap and improved self driving features.

You're not missing anything on the self driving side... Teslas only use cameras, so can never and will never actually be self-driving. Not competently, anyways.

Yeah but that's really hard to do and has never been invented before!