Reminds me of this car of old people who had a stuck accelerator. Had enough brains to call 911 and say they are out of control. Got to intersection at end of highway and hit and killed others. Not once in the 5min did it occur to the driver to turn the fucking engine off
Incidentally the last words recorded on the 911 call were "omg the road is ending. Prey! PREY!!"
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
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."
Why didn't he turn off the engine?
Reminds me of this car of old people who had a stuck accelerator. Had enough brains to call 911 and say they are out of control. Got to intersection at end of highway and hit and killed others. Not once in the 5min did it occur to the driver to turn the fucking engine off
Incidentally the last words recorded on the 911 call were "omg the road is ending. Prey! PREY!!"
Maybe he was too dumb to think of that, but most EVs are fully drive-by-wire so I'm not discounting the possibility that he couldn't turn it off.
Omg that's horrifying.
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
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.