TIL Tesla door handles don’t work after a crash so people get stuck inside and burn to death. There’s a manual latch but its impossible to find it unless you know where is and there isn’t smoke filling the cabin.
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Lovely, so all my fears were completely justified and I was in fact sitting in a death trap that one time when everyone told me to calm down.
My experience has been that most people accidentally use the manual release the first time they are in a Tesla. It’s not hard to find.
The front seat of the model S iirc. But in the back seat and in most other models its impossible to find, even covered by a plastic plate and then a sticker in the back seat of the cybertruck.
No, easily identifiable mechanical door latches appear front and back in most Tesla models, only front in some large low volume ones.
You believed something about Tesla doorhandles, you learned nothing.
I was in one the day that I posted this, there were no mechanical latches to open the door.
What model?
Mechanical latches like shown here should appear in most in the front, and I remember them first hand from a Model 3 and Model Y.
Hmmm, what about the back? I was in the back and couldn't find anything.
|..only front in some large low volume ones.
In the door side pockets in current models like Model Y somewhat accessible, more hidden in some older low volume models, allegedly under speaker grills in early Model X backdoors.
Many difficulties occurred in the falcon wing door development reportedly, possibly affecting the complicated mechanical release placement early on.
