• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    7 months ago

    Please tell me, how a door that doesn’t open if the power goes out is a good idea?

    I know that you can manually open it if you rip out some speaker grills and pull at a hidden lever. But try to remember that in an accident where you accidently drove into a pond, because you didn’t realize the car was in reverse because a touchscreen has no haptic feedback of the state the car is in.

    Turns out I did do a bit of research after all

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        If the power drops out, you can open the rear doors using a mechanical release found behind the speaker grille, which you need to remove from the vehicle’s door, the manual adds.

        I guess that’s where my info was coming from.

        Edit: The fact that this was such a problem that the business insider needed to publish the info speaks for itself, IMHO. Yes, it might be stated in the manual. But you want that shit to be obvious and intuitive in cases of emergency (when you’d need that feature).

        The manual door release can be tricky to find unless you’ve combed through your car’s owner’s manual.

        Yeah, that doesn’t speak to me as “an easy way”.

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      7 months ago

      I’m not familiar with any Tesla that requires ripping speaker grills out to open a door. The mechanical door handles that are added for emergency use are perhaps too intuitive due to their prominence over the electronic opener.