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crazygringo ◴[] No.42158678[source]
> Tesla has faced criticism in the past for the design of its manual release levers, which are considered poorly designed and unintuitively placed. These emergency measures require intimate knowledge of the car, something that may not be feasible in a panic situation.

First, how is this remotely legal? Are there not safety standards to ensure adults can easily exit a vehicle on fire?

Second, regardless of regulations, what on earth were they thinking at Tesla? Cars catch on fire and need fast emergency exit. Do they not care that their passengers might die?

I am absolutely horrified by this. Those poor passengers.

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proee ◴[] No.42158880[source]
This seems like a huge failure on the part of the NTSB. Tesla is getting a lot of attention for this incident, but are there other manufactures that would have had the exact same problem given this same incident?

The entire point of organizations like the NTSB is to prevent unsafe cars from going into production.

The NTSB has given this type of door opening a green light. WHY?

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1. proee ◴[] No.42158921[source]
In reading a bit on this topic: According to the NTSB, vehicle models with automatic locking doors should automatically unlock after an accident.

This begs the question did the door automatically unlock? Perhaps the vehicle was so damaged that the door could not be opened due to structural damaged to the door itself.

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2. unsnap_biceps ◴[] No.42159087[source]
Unlock doesn't mean unlatched, right?

The emergency release cable is to unlatch the door.