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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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RoyTyrell ◴[] No.42158793[source]
And now he's bought his way into US aristocracy so he can do whatevr he wants and no one can stop him. He doesn't like criticism from the NTHSB? Well he can deem the NTHSB "inefficient" and have it downsized and the leaders sacked. Does the FTC think he's lying about his self-driving claims? Well maybe the FTC is inefficient and he just makes a call to Trump and the DoJ won't be investigating anything either. The US is now completely an oligarchy and kleptocracy.
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BriggyDwiggs42 ◴[] No.42158843[source]
To be fair we’ve been ruled by corporations for a while.
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1. davidw ◴[] No.42159190{3}[source]
This is taking it to another level.
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2. dwattttt ◴[] No.42159380[source]
After all the other levels it's been taken to? Surely not!