UN Terrified friends burned to death in Tesla as electronic doors wouldn't open after crash - Elon Musk presents the Indian slow cooker

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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 (
Image:

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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[The Backwards Man]

Damn, the jeet cookout was only 75% complete.

 

[Infinite Monkeys]

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

Well you're wrong.

 

[Mikoyan]

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

Apparently not.

At one time (technically still but some have backed off and all are likely unenforceable post-Bruen, etc.) several states had laws that said 'x months after a user-locked gun becomes available, all other guns become illegal for sale'. One of the main development paths for that has indeed been fingerprint guns.

 

[thx1138]

"Go. Cook. Yourselves!"

 

[Super Guido]

At one time (technically still but some have backed off and all are likely unenforceable post-Bruen, etc.) several states had laws that said 'x months after a user-locked gun becomes available, all other guns become illegal for sale'. One of the main development paths for that has indeed been fingerprint guns.

Did they come up with that idea while they were hitting a crackpipe?

 

[Mikoyan]

Did they come up with that idea while they were hitting a crackpipe?

No, because the idea was to make guns intolerably awful and unreliable.

 

[dvorak]

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

Apparently not.

Ah, my bad. Been more than a few years since I've read any Dredd. Was thinking more about gun control advocates who every now and again think tech in firearms will somehow end all school shootings.

 

[Megaton Punch]

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

I mean, it would. Just because it's cyberpunk doesn't mean it's good. That's kind of the whole point of the genre. I don't know when cyberpunk stopped meaning "all the problems of the modern day but in the future" and became "cool tech but it's also gritty but not in a bad way".

 

[0gh]

I don't know if this situation was necessarily created by Tesla. Doors not opening is not that uncommon in bad crashes. When I was young, the son of this wealthy businessman in my city hit a bridge so hard with his car it literally broke off a chunk of the bridge and sent it flying. It caught on fire, and the doors wouldn't open, but the windows broke too so he got out.

That's a more extreme situation though, most crashes are not like this, but I wonder what the statistics look like on Teslas vs other vehicles. The batteries themselves are industry standard for many things, and are actually quite difficult to get to catch on fire. Do EVs really catch on fire more often when accounting for their actual numbers vs regular car numbers? I'm also curious of the type of person to buy a Tesla and how they drive. If it's a driver like in my example from above, the car literally doesn't matter, they will do something retarded at one point or another.

I guess what I'm trying to say is are Teslas the bees knees? No, and the battery fire issue is definitely bad, but is this really an issue or just some isolated cases similar to how planes are far safer than any vehicle even if a boeing nosedived? Not to say that Teslas are safer, the comparison is extreme events not necessarily giving you a wide enough picture to put a safe/unsafe net on something.

 

[RodgerDodger]

So in the span of 24 hours we've had threads about 4 Indians freezing to death trying to escape Canada, and 4 Indians burning to death. I'm sensing a pattern

 

[TheCrackMonkey]

So in the span of 24 hours we've had threads about 4 Indians freezing to death trying to escape Canada, and 4 Indians burning to death. I'm sensing a pattern

Hopefully that nature itself doesn't want them to live.

 

[LikeAStone 2.0]

It’s even more retarded when you consider that the two main wires, one that kills you by electrocution and one that cuts the power off and stops a fire, are colored red and orange and under the fucking Tesla.

 

[Big moth tiddies]

Completely electricity reliant doors, not even once.

You linked a video that shows how to open it without electricity.

 

[Clotso Coof]

How did they know the crash started the fire with all those curry farts inside the car? Maybe the farts concentrated until they exploded, then the car crashed.

 

[Neodanthril]

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

It only gets that hot if the battery, you know, the power source, is on fire

 

[oh no its pipkun]

They did not redeem, and this is their reward. By the way there are manual door openers to Teslas, but that's what happens when you barely pass your literacy tests, eh?

i was going to say my bil thinks im a retard because i cant find the little tesla door button and use the handle like a caveman. model 3s have manual handles 100%, theyre very obvious.

 

[John Badman]

Caar you bloody madarfuckar open the door. CAAR DO FACKING NOT REDEEM THE DOOR. CAAAARRR!!!!

 

[Marc]

Back when Teslas were a status symbol for woman-voting tech faggots willing to put themselves in debt to potentially impress angel investors, I lived in a city where the only people you ever saw driving them were cripples and crypto bros. When one of them insisted on showing it off and having me sit in the passenger seat, I couldn't have been more impressed for the wrong reasons: He wasn't capable of answering a single, obvious safety or failsafe-specific question (many of which were presented on the first page); instead smugly replying with "That never happens with Teslas, brah" and "You're speaking a foreign language to me, breh." It was also the middle of the night, and he had his sunglasses on his forehead. He later sold all his remaining Litecoin after relapsing into opioid addiction. Ever since, that experience has been what I most associate with the brand.

So I see headlines such as these and go, "Well...Yeah." Now I live in a different city, where there are Cybertrucks with custom paint jobs which you only see driving within a twenty mile radius; because there are no chargers until you hit the next metropolis.

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

But you can open them manually. These pajeets were just retarded. I know it's a meme that you can't but they all have a manual lever. It fucks up your window but you can get out.

 

[Ghostse]

I can't wait for doors that require a mobile app and subscription service.

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