Tesla driver stuck in car during software update. Warns others to avoid in-car updates and highlights the importance of knowing manual release features.
She wasn’t in danger for sure, but she also didn’t want to risk harming the trim of her already quickly depreciating car. Remember that Tesla, in their infinite design wisdom, decided the window trim should overlap the glass and be fixed. If you use the manual release the door opens without opening the windows, thus bending and risking destroying the window trim.
That’s bullshit though. Anybody with a Tesla can tell you that 2 in every 3 people who sit in it WILL pull the manual release to exit. It’s not good for the trim and I do correct people, but this is some princess bullshit.
It’s also fucking stupid to update the car while you’re in it. The app literally tells you that the car will be unavailable.
Why not? There’s a required manual latch, which exists. If it reduces cost somehow to have two switches I can’t see the downside. It seems like a money losing proposition, but if that were the case I don’t know how we got to this situation. Probably it’s a nicety to 1) preserve trim sure, but 2) allow more sophisticated automation like “hey you can’t open the door when the car is in motion”, or other niceties.
The door connects to the computer but there’s an available, mandatory failsafe. Nobody is having problems who isn’t eating Jesus sandwiches or a box of crayons for lunch.
Because its stupid to hook everything up to the central computer. You end up having single points of failure, which is a big no-no in terms of engineering, safety, and good design.
Such as being unable to open your doors when the central computer is updating. Its one thing to lose access to remote locks, radio, or whatever. But we’re talking about the damn door handle here. Its very non-intuitive to the typical user that “My infotainment computer running Steam + video games could crash and take my door handles out”.
Furthermore, Tesla runs non-critical applications, bugs, logging, and other ancillary services on these systems. Any of these can crash and take out the electronic door handles.
There’s a required manual latch, which exists.
But is non-intutive to use and find, especially the rear doors.
There’s a ton of Tesla fires where the central computer has (likely) caught on fire, is burning, and then locks everyone inside of the Tesla. Killing everybody.
The widow of a father of five in Florida is suing Tesla after her late husband was burned alive in a Model S when the electronic door handles wouldn’t open during a fiery crash, according to court documents.
Because of this shit. Which is a known issue for years.
What if I only read the headline, but I clicked through to the comments to see the fun and varied ways lemmings explained the obvious problem with the headline. Re: The manual door releases
You can just tell that most people here only read headlines. There was manual way to open the doors, that she didn’t use.
She wasn’t in danger for sure, but she also didn’t want to risk harming the trim of her already quickly depreciating car. Remember that Tesla, in their infinite design wisdom, decided the window trim should overlap the glass and be fixed. If you use the manual release the door opens without opening the windows, thus bending and risking destroying the window trim.
That’s bullshit though. Anybody with a Tesla can tell you that 2 in every 3 people who sit in it WILL pull the manual release to exit. It’s not good for the trim and I do correct people, but this is some princess bullshit.
It’s also fucking stupid to update the car while you’re in it. The app literally tells you that the car will be unavailable.
Why are the car doors hooked up to the central fucking computer?
Why not? There’s a required manual latch, which exists. If it reduces cost somehow to have two switches I can’t see the downside. It seems like a money losing proposition, but if that were the case I don’t know how we got to this situation. Probably it’s a nicety to 1) preserve trim sure, but 2) allow more sophisticated automation like “hey you can’t open the door when the car is in motion”, or other niceties.
The door connects to the computer but there’s an available, mandatory failsafe. Nobody is having problems who isn’t eating Jesus sandwiches or a box of crayons for lunch.
Because its stupid to hook everything up to the central computer. You end up having single points of failure, which is a big no-no in terms of engineering, safety, and good design.
Such as being unable to open your doors when the central computer is updating. Its one thing to lose access to remote locks, radio, or whatever. But we’re talking about the damn door handle here. Its very non-intuitive to the typical user that “My infotainment computer running Steam + video games could crash and take my door handles out”.
Furthermore, Tesla runs non-critical applications, bugs, logging, and other ancillary services on these systems. Any of these can crash and take out the electronic door handles.
But is non-intutive to use and find, especially the rear doors.
There’s a ton of Tesla fires where the central computer has (likely) caught on fire, is burning, and then locks everyone inside of the Tesla. Killing everybody.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/man-burned-alive-fiery-tesla-crash-door-open/story?id=66498159
Because of this shit. Which is a known issue for years.
What if I only read the headline, but I clicked through to the comments to see the fun and varied ways lemmings explained the obvious problem with the headline. Re: The manual door releases