drive-by-wire, lock/unlock-by-wire too. Teslas that lose power (say, due to a battery fire) cannot be opened with the regular door handles. You have to rip out the upholstery to find a hidden release
It's certainly much worse of a problem with EVs because they're all designed by futuristic techbros that want everything tied to Google Home or the equivalent. A common EV story is getting your car bricked by a routine OS update. When's the last time that happened to an ICE vehicle?
my drive shaft has a mechanical connection to my wheels, all of my doors are mechanical except for my rear lift gate, and my car is post 2020. If my battery quits I can still unlock and exit my car using the same door handle. If my accelerator gets stuck I can manually turn the key and shut off the engine. this is not something you can do in an EV with a malfunctioning speed controller.
The made-in-Germany Tesla Model Y owners could not find the emergency release as shown in the video and the car's manual. They shared pictures showing the door pocket liner without the access hatch to the emergency release system. To be sure, the Tesla Model Y owner's manual warns that "not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors."
I'm starting to think emergency hammers should be mandatory in EVs at this point.
Also, Chao is why you don't get in your car with a BAC around three times the legal limit. It's also amazing to me that no one in that crowd had the means to break a window, but I guess I just roll with a different crowd that doesn't include zero-skill CEOs.
Just had someone in the store rush out, then come back half an hour later.
Phone was at 1% and if it died they couldnt unlock their tesla so they had to run to charge the phone in the car.
This is incorrect. For the front doors there's an easily accessible manual door latch inches from the electric one. For the back you have to peel up some rubber from the door pocket - stupid design but there's no upholstery being ripped up
drive-by-wire, lock/unlock-by-wire too. Teslas that lose power (say, due to a battery fire) cannot be opened with the regular door handles. You have to rip out the upholstery to find a hidden release
Okay, now that is also horrifying. Holy shit.
yeah, avoid EVs like the plague
Avoid autonomous cars like the plague. The autonomy is the problem, not the drivetrain.
True, but sadly it seems you have to stick to older cars to avoid that garbage, which largely rules out EVs.
It's certainly much worse of a problem with EVs because they're all designed by futuristic techbros that want everything tied to Google Home or the equivalent. A common EV story is getting your car bricked by a routine OS update. When's the last time that happened to an ICE vehicle?
my drive shaft has a mechanical connection to my wheels, all of my doors are mechanical except for my rear lift gate, and my car is post 2020. If my battery quits I can still unlock and exit my car using the same door handle. If my accelerator gets stuck I can manually turn the key and shut off the engine. this is not something you can do in an EV with a malfunctioning speed controller.
What? That's ridiculous, no one would do something like that, so I went and looked it up. Here's the Model 3's manual release lever, right next to the window switches, on the door.
I went ahead and checked a different model, the Tesla Y and.... oh.... [Oh dear: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-model-y-got-a-more-straightforward-emergency-door-release-still-not-good-enough-201427.html
At least they changed it.... https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-changed-the-model-y-s-emergency-door-release-again-tough-luck-if-you-need-to-use-it-219273.html
Emphasis added, holy shit.
Wasn’t there a recent case of a woman drowning in a few feet of water in her tesla because none of the doors or windows could operate once it got wet?
“ Details reveal the desperate attempt to save CEO Angela Chao, trapped in a submerged Tesla”
I'm starting to think emergency hammers should be mandatory in EVs at this point.
Also, Chao is why you don't get in your car with a BAC around three times the legal limit. It's also amazing to me that no one in that crowd had the means to break a window, but I guess I just roll with a different crowd that doesn't include zero-skill CEOs.
Window breakers should be mandatory anyway for all cars. It's not like electric windows haven't been known to fail too.
But you repeat yourself
Just had someone in the store rush out, then come back half an hour later. Phone was at 1% and if it died they couldnt unlock their tesla so they had to run to charge the phone in the car.
This is incorrect. For the front doors there's an easily accessible manual door latch inches from the electric one. For the back you have to peel up some rubber from the door pocket - stupid design but there's no upholstery being ripped up