• JordanZ@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Tesla has its fair share of boneheaded decisions like hiding the mechanical emergency release for their electric door handles. The front is fairly sane if you’re aware of it before hand but the rear requires disassembling parts of the door to get to it(if it’s an older model year they just don’t exist at all).

    That recently killed 4 people cause the car lost all power in the accident and they couldn’t get out while the car was on fire and filled with smoke. On a similar note if your battery dies and you need to use that emergency release to open the door then it breaks the window. Teslas need to retract the window a small amount to clear the body/weather stripping.