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Serious question regarding Tesla's specifically.
What system is in place to allow emergency personnel to open the doors after an accident? How does that work with their fancy door handles?
Only reason I ask that is because I just read an article about a Tesla that crashed and responders said they couldn't open the doors...
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...killing-driver
Jaws of life should open pretty much any car door in the planet. Even Tesla.Originally Posted by hollohas
You'd think celebration mode could double as an emergency mode, genius.
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My airstream has been stolen by dopers
Tesla has a celebration mode?
I?m googling that.
Best bet is to Google the whoopie cushion mode called... emissions testing I believe?... or my personal fav: Romance mode! lol
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I don't know the details of this story. If it's like most of the other "Tesla kills driver... film at 11" stories I read I'm sure that more details will emerge in the months to come but I don't know enough to make a judgement on this specific situation.
Cars are scary things and people die in them every day. If the door was inoperable why couldn't they just smash the glass the get him out if the jaws of life were too far away? I don't know what extraction methods were attempted or which couldn't be. It seems to me that if someone inside was going to die and could be saved they wouldn't have just checked the door handle and walked away. These types situations happen every day in all sorts of car makes so I'm not going to sit here and say that lack of door handles killed the driver because I have next to zero details other than: guy was driving tesla, car hits tree, guy dies. Everything else at this point just more of the same doom and gloom the MSM wants to sell us.
Never mind that the NHTSA recently released it's results of a study that found that Tesla cars have the lowest probability of injury of any vehicle made and the margin was significant. Never mind that Autopilot has been around long enough that we have significant data to show that you're actually far less likely to be in an accident with Autopilot enabled then you are w/o it because nobody hears about these things. Instead, one person dies in a car accident and the "media" rushes to blame Tesla because, let's face it, if the headline of that story doesn't have the word "Tesla" in it nobody cares.
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I guess I shouldn't have posted the link. Forget this story completely, the details don't interest me. It only piqued my interest regarding a technical aspect of the car. I was simply asking a Tesla owner who knows a bit about the cars to answer a question for me. It was a serious question not meant as a 'gotcha'. How do the doors open if the car is disabled?
The door should open just fine in the event of a battery failure. If all power is lost then the handles will not "present" or pop out which means they will be flush with the door. In an obvious emergency situation however it would make sense to break the window and either pull the handle from the inside (mechanically connected to door mechanism in case of just such an event) or pull the drive through the window. Either way, this seems more like a training issue than something Tesla did wrong. They're not the first to have fancy door handles.
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Any firemen here? You guys getting any special training on electric vehicles? The door handle thing aside, what about electric vehicle fires?
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