In the past, laminated glass was usually installed in the windshield, with side and rear windows being tempered only.

The difference is that tempered glass is per-stressed so that when it cracks, it shatters into many tiny and dull pieces. Laminated is the same thing, but with layers of plastic sandwiched with layers of tempered glass. Laminated glass will still shatter, but will be held together by the plastic layers.

In an emergency, small improvised, or purpose built tools meant to shatter tempered glass will be useless if the glass is laminated.

  • @AA5B
    2•9 months ago

    It was a model X. It’s hard to believe they would put door pockets in those falcon wing doors. They would spill every time you opened the door

    Edit: looked it up. I found a video but it was two years old so things may be different now. I also don’t remember seeing how old the car in question was

    For Model X

    • front door latch is mechanical so continues working after loss of power
    • back door has no pocket but it’s even worse. To get to emergency release of the back door you need to pull off the speaker grill and fish around for the cable
    • it seemed like back windows on all Tesla’s are tempered glass, not laminated, so will shatter