Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law Angela Chao made panicked last call before dying in ‘completely submerged’ Tesla on Texas ranch: report(nypost.com)

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anivia@lemmy.ml

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6 months ago

These deadly features are purely cosmetic

No, electronic door handles are not cosmetic, they save a lot more lives than than they kill by people drowning or burning alive in their car because they are too stupid to read their cars manual.

Since you apparently do not know this, the purpose of electronic door handles is for the car to be able to lock you out from opening the door if there is a car or bicycle approaching from behind in your blind spot. That’s why you only see them in cars with blind spot radars

That being said, Teslas design is still terrible. In Audis the electronic door handle doubles up as the mechanical emergency door handle, you just need to pull on it harder than normal and it will engage the manual mechanism

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Garbanzo@lemmy.world

19 points

6 months ago

they save a lot more lives than than they kill

Do they? Can you provide any examples?

the purpose of electronic door handles is for the car to be able to lock you out from opening the door if there is a car or bicycle approaching from behind in your blind spot.

Seems like they created a lot of unnecessary risk to alleviate a relatively minor problem.

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Maggoty@lemmy.world

4 points

6 months ago

So it needs to fail open then. Without a charge it should fail into a position it can be opened or actually open itself.

This is not a new issue. Failure engineering has been around for a long time.

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Thann@lemmy.ml

2 points

6 months ago

Bro, you dont need electronc door-handles to have electronic locks,

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