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If only we had the technology to open doors without power. One day, perhaps.

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Or the foresight to have a small backup battery unit used exclusively for emergencies like say when the battery goes out or when someone reverses their car into a lake. The fact these are such death traps shows just how bad the US is when it comes to giving a flying fuck about people over money.

And all the while Elon is touted as some kind of super Lex Lutherian genius.

Honestly if I wrote a fictional book with some of the shit he’s done and how the world looks at him publishers would throw it back in my face as being the most unbelievable POS they’ve read in the past 20 years.

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have a small backup battery

As far as I understand, that 12V battery was that backup…

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Nope it’s a separate battery used like in a normal car to power the low voltage stuff so you don’t have to use high grade power lines to run the windows and doors

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I should have said a small battery backup done properly knowing full well the abysmal QA of that company.

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I still dont like something that is electric powered making it so you cant get through a door. If there is a short, the battery dies (which it will someday) or generally bad parts could potentially lead to a preventable death. Cars were made so keys (or key like) can open the door no matter what. And especially in the heat everyone is going through in the US.

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Ya I hear you. I don’t even like driving modern cars because they are all electrical and the pedals feel like video game controls. But nothing in the Tesla is built well. I fully believe it possible to build a full proof battery backup and not just hook up a random 12v that probably suffers from the same abysmal QA as the rest of the car.

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But how do you integrate a subscription fee into analog doors? You can‘t enshitify that!!

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Oh that’s easy, just make it a one time release switch. You gotta replace the door battery after using it.

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An explosive hatch! Or ejection seat! Love it

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Door opener fluid. It’s a canister of fluid that you have to pump into the door to open it in an emergency. Then you get a replacement canister from the dealer for $150. I recently found out that that’s what passes for a “spare tire” anymore.

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I like how you were downvoted so heavily for posting correct information because there was a hint you weren’t shitting on Tesla hard enough.

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They charge 99$ a month for FSD.

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Until then we’ve included a complimentary hammer with each Tesla.

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The fact a car was approved that doesn’t have a manual way to open doors from inside and outside and start it is ludicrous. That’s basic-ass level shit. NHTSA is asleep at the wheel.

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Other comment says there is a way from inside, just not outside (which doesn’t help with a young kid/toddler/baby is the inside passenger of course).

Either way, glad this is “only” a huge embarrassment, and not a dead kid.

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Or charge/jump the 12V battery without having to remove the body panels.

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There is a manual door release that works without power, but only from the inside. She had just loaded the child in their car seat, shut the door then went to the driver door to get in and couldn’t open it.

The doors are on the 12V side of the system, you can use jumper cables to connect an external battery from another vehicle (including ICE vehicles) to power the door under normal circumstances. But with a kid trapped in the car in AZ, I wouldn’t wait for that either.

It a pretty rare combinations of circumstances, but there’s something to be said for manual keys still used on other vehicles with keyless entry.

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How would you connect the battery with jumper cables if you’re locked out?

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There’s a manual release that can be used to open the hood from the outside even if the vehicle has no power.

It’s a safety feature for first responders, as also under the hood is a loop of wire that can be cut to permanently disable the high voltage curcuts prior cutting open the car with saws.

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MadLad that Elmo is

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Let me fill in for them then: “We CoUlDn’T PoSsIbLy pReDiCt ThAt tHiS wAs GoInG tO hApPeN!”

That’s the usual typical Corporate bad faith answer to whenever a serious consequence that everyone could see coming but they kept ignoring finally happens.

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Does it also send a poop emoji now?

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Sounds like journalists can just make shit up and publish it. “Telsa declined to comment.” so I guess it’s true until corrected.

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It’s how journalists apply pressure to companies to respond. “We have statements x, y, and z from the public about you. Do you care to respond? We need to go to press with it in two hours.” Companies can ignore it if they want, but the statements will go uncontested.

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What other oem hides the mechanical latch?

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What? No they aren’t. They almost always fail on a curve of power and voltage loss.

Also, I didn’t look it up, but I’d be very surprised if the model Y tesla didn’t require (suggest and oem?) an AGM battery. It’s still lead, but due to how they’re made they can’t get a dead short in them like older regular lead acid batteries can once they get old, although it still isn’t very common for it to happen.

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Even if she did receive warnings, she’s a grandmother who easily could miss one of the many messages on the car. It’s just bad design.

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Not sure, but 20 month old toddler…

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The only sensible solution then is to ban toddlers from EVs. They’ll just have to walk.

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Just strap them into a stroller tethered to the back of the EV.

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The only sensible solution then is to ban toddlers from EVs. They’ll just have to walk.

Better give 'em guns too. With all that walking maybe they can stop a school shooting or two.

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Yes, the interior manual release works without power, but the only person in the car was a toddler in a car seat and they were not able to open it themselves.

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Oh great! So someone couldn’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps and now they want a hand-out. I bet this “toddler” doesn’t even pay taxes.

/s

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Woke toddler was working for Big Baby to make Tesla look bad

Also, firefighters are just beefy sexy shills for the axe industry

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I though it was working against Big Baby *ahem*

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where’s the manual door release?

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Inside the car (sadly). No manual release on the outside.

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im as stupid as a baby, i still actually meant the inside but OFC the baby can’t figure that out.

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On the door

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Where’s the door?

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If you can’t find the door on a car, you’re too far gone to help.

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Read the article

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