Numerous Tesla owners say they’ve been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.::Numerous Tesla owners say they have been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.Teslas come with manual door releases, but they can be hard to find

  • db2@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I hate to be the voice of reason here, but if you get inside a powerful device to pilot it you should at minimum read the directions first.

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        1 year ago

        That’s the tax. “You want to get out of your crippled car and not have a heat stroke? Go buy a new proprietary window from GlassX.”

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        1 year ago

        IIRC Teslas roll the window down slightly when you open the doors, and this doesn’t work if the car’s dead.

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          1 year ago

          Lots of cars do this. My old boss had a 350Z in like 2009 that lowered the window when you opened the door.

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        1 year ago

        Yes that’s a risk, but would you rather have a broken window or be caught in a burning car? More important it still works after a power failure.

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      Have you read your entire car manual? Mine’s like 200 pages, no way I’d remember everything even if I did read all of it. It’s best used as a refefence when you need to do something.

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            1 year ago

            Lemmy sure does love name calling! It’s such a mature and productive way to carry on a conversation!

            I mean literally I paid 60k-ish all together for my two cars , why is it so hard to believe? I didn’t read it cover to cover, like all the detailed specifications, and the index and all that kind of stuff, I didn’t memorize the maintenance schedules for Canada and Mexico, but all the explanations of all the features? Of course I read all of that. It takes just 2-3 hours to go through it all, even sitting in the car and trying everything out as I go. It’s a super small time investment into something I’m going to own for several years. I spend way more time on a weekly basis on leisure activities like playing games.

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        1 year ago

        If there was a weird procedure to open the doors I’d read that part… and anything else that isn’t standard or obvious too.

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      I bought a new car recently, and I looked up how to get in, open the hood and jump start it if it has a dead battery, how to get in and start it with a dead keyfob, etc before I ever took delivery.

      A bit of knowledge turns a major problem into a 5 minute problem. That said, it sounds like following the directions and using the manual release didn’t work very well.