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Terrified friends burned to death in Tesla as electronic doors wouldn't open after crash​

The only survivor of the October 24 fire was a woman in her 20s who was able to get to safety after a quick thinking passer-by smashed a window of the burning Model Y car to free her​

The car burst into flames after hitting a barrier, four of the five passengers were unable to get out as fire engulfed the car (


By
Joe SmithNews Reporter

• 08:48, 12 Nov 2024

Four friends died in a horrific car fire after they were unable to escape from a burning Tesla when a crash disabled its electronic doors.
The only survivor of the October 24 fire was a woman in her 20s who was able to get to safety after a passer-by smashed a window of the burning Model Y car.

Four other friends, identified as 25-year-old Neelraj Gohil, his sister Ketaba Gohil, 29, Jay Sisodiya and Digvijay Patel all lost their lives in the incident.
Rick Harper, a Canada Post employee, heroically used a metal pole to smash the car window, freeing the woman. In an interview with the Toronto Star he told reporters she “couldn’t open the doors” from inside of the crashed Tesla.


One woman was saved when a passer-by smashed the window (
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CTV)
“I would assume the young lady would have tried to open the door from the inside, because she was pretty desperate to get out,” Harper said. “I don't know if that was the battery or what. But she couldn't get out.”
He described how the woman, the only survivor of the wreck, scrambled out of the car head-first after he smashed the window. Harper said he did not know anyone else was in the car at the time, because the smoke was so thick.

He has no way to know if they too were trying to escape the burning car using the unresponsive doors in their final moments. Investigators are still working to determine the cause of the crash, which happened after the Tesla hit a guardrail at speed on Toronto’s Lakeshore Boulevard East.
In the US there are nine investigations involving the Tesla Model Y, ranging from “unexpected brake activation” to “sudden unintended acceleration,” according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Tesla boasts its vehicles gave a “safety-first design” and says its vehicles are “the safest in the world”. There is a manual override in Tesla cars but the feature is not widely publicized, experts say.
In the event of a crash passengers are directed to pull away a palen in the door and tug at a cable underneath to open the doors, but safety watchdogs have said dazed or panicked crash victims may not be able to search for the feature after a car crash.

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[Sexy Potoo]

All cars can catch fire after an accident. EVs are much less likely to and Tesla cars have the highest safety records.

Ok, but there is a massive difference between a gasoline and oil fire, and car battery sized lithium fire.

Also, gasoline has to find an ignition source to burn (granted, a wrecked vehicle can easily provide a source), but the internals of a battery can explosively catch fire when exposed to air. This why EV's are so easy to total. Any potential damage to to battery means that it is a ticking time bomb.

So I don't think EVs are less like to catch on fire after an accident either.

 

[Super Guido]

Ok, but there is a massive difference between a gasoline and oil fire, and car battery sized lithium fire.

Also, gasoline has to find an ignition source to burn (granted, a wrecked vehicle can easily provide a source), but the internals of a battery can explosively catch fire when exposed to air. This why EV's are so easy to total. Any potential damage to to battery means that it is a ticking time bomb.

So I don't think EVs are less like to catch on fire after an accident either.

Are hybrid cars any better in the battery fire department? In terms of how fucked you are, I mean.

With how big the batteries are in full electric, I would think they'd be worse than an internal combustion engine or hybrid.

 

[Email]

How hard is it to punch through a window if you know you're going to die and your body dumped all the adrenaline into your bloodstream?

It's not "META" but it's possible. Windows resist enough to save people sometimes. No telling if the make, model, or someone's post-crash state will be right to break it.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

You should always have a tool in your car for smashing windows easily. Do people not do that?

You don't need to buy something that will be buried in your glove box to break your car windows. Remove your headrest and hit the window with the two metal rods that attach it to the seat.

Used to live in a ghetto apartment, I once watched some lady smash a car window with a rock for whatever reason. Surprisingly more difficult then you would expect it to be.

 

[12345678901]

Ok, but there is a massive difference between a gasoline and oil fire, and car battery sized lithium fire.

Also, gasoline has to find an ignition source to burn (granted, a wrecked vehicle can easily provide a source), but the internals of a battery can explosively catch fire when exposed to air. This why EV's are so easy to total. Any potential damage to to battery means that it is a ticking time bomb.

So I don't think EVs are less like to catch on fire after an accident either.

EVs are less likely to catch fire but if they do it is much more dangerous. But I am sure likelyhood is higher if you include the gook evs.

 

[Google.com]

If your car has a terrifying shitty failure condition like this there should be signage in the car to indicate how to operate the manual release. Does Tesla just expect every driver to do a pre-flight safety brief to any passenger entering their car? Tesla 100% knows that safety release wont do shit with 50% of drivers not knowing about it and 99% of passengers not knowing, Tesla is just perfectly with with cooking a few hundred people per car model alive.

 

[George Lucas]

Are hybrid cars any better in the battery fire department? In terms of how fucked you are, I mean.

With how big the batteries are in full electric, I would think they'd be worse than an internal combustion engine or hybrid.

Hybrid batteries are way smaller, so that (at least) quadratically reduces the likelihood of ignition.

 

[Super Guido]

Hybrid batteries are way smaller, so that (at least) quadratically reduces the likelihood of ignition.

That's what I was thinking, but I wasn't sure if there would be an issue of smaller batteries with a more concentrated amount of energy, even though it's not a fully electric vehicle.

Thanks for the info.

 

[pwnest injun]

Hows about a temperature sensor that opens the door automatically when it registers 2000C? Keep it on a separate circuit.

 

[Tablet County]

They did not redeem, and this is their reward.

On the contrary; this is what happens when you rideem.

Hows about a temperature sensor that opens the door automatically when it registers 2000C? Keep it on a separate circuit.

Or you know, a door handle.

 

[nayeon]

and nothing of value was lost

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

The mobile poo incinerator

 

[dvorak]

Completely electricity reliant doors, not even once.

People behind this claptrap also probably think it would be very cyberpunk to have a finger print reader on a handgun.

 

[Edict of Expulsion]

Self-drive over every jeet in cuck canada and it's a good start, just heat seek on the curry smell

 

[Super Guido]

People behind this claptrap also probably think it would be very cyberpunk to have a finger print reader on a handgun.

Would it explode if it detected someone other than the original owner trying to use it?

 

[dvorak]

Hows about a temperature sensor that opens the door automatically when it registers 2000C? Keep it on a separate circuit.

Yeah and that circuit can be independently powered by solar. Hope you don't live in an area that's overcast and happen to get into an accident!

Tech fetishists make me want to shred my engineering diploma. KISS needs to be drilled into every college engineering student starting at day 1.

 

[dvorak]

Would it explode if it detected someone other than the original owner trying to use it?

Would you use a fingerprint scanner if I told you that if an incorrect print is read it will blow up the users hand? Even if it is 99.99% accurate? You do wash your hands frequently, right? Wouldn't want a piece of dirt or cheeto dust to cause a false negative.

 

[Super Guido]

Would you use a fingerprint scanner if I told you that if an incorrect print is read it will blow up the users hand? Even if it is 99.99% accurate? You do wash your hands frequently, right? Wouldn't want a piece of dirt or cheeto dust to cause a false negative.

I thought you were making a joke about Judge Dredd and the gun called The Lawgiver.

Apparently not.

 

[Jotch]

Tesla's five year plan is complete, Operation KFC is now active. (USI-2016-2284592 OP 7)
Huntress Authorization: Ronald McDonald.
Toronto will be neutralized in time for Thanksgiving.

 

[Thiletonomics]

EVs are less likely to catch fire but if they do it is much more dangerous. But I am sure likelyhood is higher if you include the gook evs.

The real deathtrap EVs are Chink ones, because they also have shoddy build quality that make Teslas look well-made.