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


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 (


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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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“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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I know the doors ARE electric, but do we know that they couldn't be opened BECAUSE they are electric? There's many a crash where doors can't be opened simply because they've buckled in and the frame itself is bent. The article implies that it's because they're electric but article writers hunger for clicks. And looking at the picture of the wreck that was a pretty severe impact.
 
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When I visited the US and had a couple of Tesla Ubers the window would need to retract slightly to make clearance for the door; could that be the reason why manual control for the door isn't a thing(outside of the faggy "everything newer and non-tactile automatic input=kewler and betterer" push in tech and possibly because it saves a tiny amount on the budget to have less chassis and more window/door)?
I'd imagine having the window work against the motor via manual input(whether it be those old hand cranks or just having the window retract with the door handle pull) would eventually strain the motor and deprive the cool techies of their vital automated window control.
 
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well sorry but after doing some complex division and googling I've found that there are around 1.4 billion gas cars being driven around the world with about 284,130 car fires annually. which is about 1.2 percent of cars. There are around 42 million electric cars on the road currently with 4,125 fires a year, which equals 9.8%. So you are about 10 times more likely to roast up in ur soymoybile!
 
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the nigger smartphone industry does all it can to ward people away from trying to repair their own phones by warning that lithium batteries could explode while trying to remove them. meanwhile in the automotive industry:
 
So this must be Musk trying to broaden American cuisine with the 'Indian' that Brits so love.

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well sorry but after doing some complex division and googling I've found that there are around 1.4 billion gas cars being driven around the world with about 284,130 car fires annually. which is about 1.2 percent of cars. There are around 42 million electric cars on the road currently with 4,125 fires a year, which equals 9.8%. So you are about 10 times more likely to roast up in ur soymoybile!
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Ok wait my math is fucked feel free to call me a retard. I got these figures using the default computer calculator 0.020295% is for gas cars and 0.0098214285714286% for electric so I'm completely wrong
 
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An evil pixelated grin appeared on the entertainment console, and an ominous text-to-speech voice began speaking through the stereo system. "Activation signal received," punctuated by the clicking sound of the locks activating of their own accord. The car began to warm up rapidly as the doomed passengers began trying to unlock the doors. It was no use, and worry gave way quickly to panic. They were trapped by the safe and effective electronic locks. A low, smug chuckle emitted from the stereo.

"Self-destruct sequence initiated. Total Jeet Death," the Tesla declared as the grin on the entertainment console transformed into a fire emoji. The Tesla laughed triumphantly.
 
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grump said:
I'm not on the tesla hate bandwagon like everyone else but I do not understand their obsession of going out of their way to eliminate everything manual to the point where it obviously compromises safety for no reason. Its probably a lot harder to engineer a door that can't be used manually.
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Because they want to be able to override your control of the vehicle at any time and in every way.

Right now, if they wanted to, they could steer a Tesla to the side of the road, shut i t off, and lock the occupants inside of it. All remotely and without anyone knowing.

Sounds like something the government would love to be able to do to people they don't like, doesn't it? And Tesla wants those government contracts...
he who has thus come/gone said:
You should always have a tool in your car for smashing windows easily. Do people not do that?
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The average person is borderline-retarded these days and has never been taught basic survival skills.
 
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When I visited the US and had a couple of Tesla Ubers the window would need to retract slightly to make clearance for the door; could that be the reason why manual control for the door isn't a thing
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That's actually pretty common on vehicles with frameless windows (usually coupes) and power windows - it lets the window properly engage the seal to minimize wind noise/leakage.

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sudden unintended acceleration
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I'll give them the other reported issues as being potential defects with the cars, but "unintended acceleration" is almost always a case of driving while old. Also, seemingly driving while female:

“The most consistent finding across data sources was the striking overrepresentation of females in pedal misapplication crashes, relative to their involvement in all types of crashes,” the study’s authors declared in an executive summary. “Females were the drivers in nearly two-thirds of the pedal misapplication crashes” included in the study.
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I once visited a company that had just experienced a "thermal event" (giant battery fire) with a battery that was smaller than a car, but still larger form factor than any other consumer grade battery sold right now. The smell was insane and apparently the fire department kept a much larger perimeter around the place for longer than usual due to the toxic white smoke created from the lithium battery.
 
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