• Storksforlegs@beehaw.org
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    3 hours ago

    Well when you get cars designed by people who think safety regulation can be ignored, this is what you get.

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    Elmo is too cheap to give his customers real door handles when it can be done in software.

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    4 hours ago

    The title made it sound like a full lock-in. But one survived.

    Harper grabbed a bar from his truck and handed it to another bystander, who managed to break the back window and pull the young woman to safety.

    Tesla has faced criticism in the past for the design of its manual release levers, which are considered poorly designed and unintuitively placed.

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    5 hours ago

    Setting aside anything specific to the mechanism in that vehicle, I suppose that keeping one of those window-breaker tools in the dash might have been a good idea, for a car of any sort.

    That being said, I don’t keep one in my car.

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      I’ve heard that done Tesla models have laminate glass on the doors, like they make the windshield, making most glass breakers ineffective.