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
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    71 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.

    • @givesomefucks
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      841 year ago

      I hate to be the voice of reason here

      But you could read the article first…

      Exton followed the instructions for the manual release to open the door, but he said this “somehow broke the driver’s window.”

      • @rtxn
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        271 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.”

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          21 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 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.

    • @Darorad
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      221 year ago

      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.

      • lazyslacker
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        11 year ago

        Yes I have read the entire thing. I paid enough for it I better know how to use it.

          • lazyslacker
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            11 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.

      • db2
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        -21 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      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.

      • @droans
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        21 year ago

        Yep. Every manual I’ve seen had discrete sections for “What to do in an emergency”, “Basic ownership shit”, “Maintenance”, and a bunch of other stuff.

        You don’t need to read the entire thing, just the important information so you know what to do.

        Or at the very least, know where it’s at so you can reference it when you need to.