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Woman Stuck in Tesla For 40 Minutes With 115 Degrees Temperature During Vehicle Update (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Tesla offers manual door releases for situations with depleted power, but Janel opted to wait, fearing potential damage to her car. "Inside my car, it's 103 degrees, so I'm slightly freaking out. I hope I don't run out of air," "I can't open up the doors or the windows otherwise I could potentially damage my car, so I'm just stuck in here roasting like a frickin chicken dripping sweat,"

I hope that I don't die of suffocation and heat, but I can't afford my car breaking if I OPEN THE DOOR in the middle of an update.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

She’s a moron. Normally when you open the door, the windows will slide down a half inch so they can clear the weather stripping as the door opens.

The emergency release just opens the door so the window will kind of drag through the weather stripping. I guess if you do this enough, it could damage the rubber seal. The car will warn you about it if you open the door that way, but by no means is it worth sweating to death in a car to avoid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (12 children)

The one time I rode in a tesla, the car showed an angry message on the center screen because I opened the door with the door handle and that was wrong somehow. Apparently there's a secret second door handle that doesn't damage the weatherstripping.

Most car manufacturers have this figured out, they quite cleverly make the normal door handle and the manual release be the same handle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It's not a secret door handle, it's a button with a picture of an open car door on it . The problem is that the emergency latch is closer to where a normal door handle is, so people looking down for the handle see it first. The button is just a little further forward and a little higher than people expect, so they always miss it.

It's still a bad design.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What she did was stupid, but its really easy for people to push themselves thinking they are fine until they suddenly aren't. I'm sure she was thinking she could just open the door when it got too bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Seriously. Reminds me of radio recordings of aspyxiated pilots. If it gets too bad, then it's already over. Pilots who unknowingly run out of oxygen just sit there zoned out not realizing that is happening and they are trained professionals!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

So obviously, fuck Teslas.

But it says she didn't used the manual release because she thought it might somehow hurt her car?

And she didn't update it for 6 years and choose waiting for a Chick-fil-A order was the right time, even tho she expected it to take 24 minutes?

Like, what kind of Chick-fil-A takes 24 minutes to make an order, she knew it would be ready before it's done.

This is one of those situations where there's no victim, she's an idiot but Tesla's suck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

According to the article she did update the car before. She just used to have it done at night, and this is the first time she was in the car during an update.

40 minutes is a hell of a long time for a software update though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

She's 100% an idiot. When a Tesla needs updating it gives you the option between scheduling it later (by default 2am) or doing it now. When you select do it now it specifically warns you some features may NOT be available and list both the HVAC and doors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The diors not being available during an update is stupid design.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

At first glance yes but if they are updating the portion of the code involving the door it makes perfect sense why you shouldn't use the door. Also keep in mind the manual release is always available even during an update.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

portion of the code involving the door

It is a door

A door

Why did they design a door that needs a computer to unlatch without damaging the weather proofing. Every other car I’ve been in has been able to open the door without needing a computer to adjust the windows.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lol what a load of shit. This chick is dumb at least 3 ways:

  1. The app and the car warn you that the thing will be unavailable when you select update. GET OUT of the car. Has she never seen the warnings of how fast a car heats up? Like why you can't leave your dog or a kid in the car to run into a store "really quick"?

  2. Literally 2 in every 3 people who ride in your car pull the manual release. It is not a big deal if you don't use it every time. It's as though she's never had a passenger in 6 years. I just don't buy it.

  3. Most importantly, THIS IS WHAT THE MANUAL LATCH IS DESIGNED FOR.

There are many, MANY design features of a Tesla that suck (as anyone who has one will tell you), but article is clickbait from user stupidity. She needs to wear her helmet at all times for not using the feature designed to let her get out at any moment. Even IF she bent the weather stripping, it would cost less than her chicken sandwiches to fix.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

She is dumb for not using the manual release but why the fuck does it take 40 minutes to do an update?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Tesla offers manual door releases for situations with depleted power, but Janel opted to wait, fearing potential damage to her car.

Are Teslas made from tracing paper? How would manually opening the door damage her car?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Normally, when you want to open the door, you push the door button, the door window drops and opens an inch or so, clearing to door seals. The emergency door releases force the windows through the door seals without the window drop. If you do that too much, you'll damage the door seals. If you do it rarely, it doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Just another incredible design flaw that never should have made it to production.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Who came up with that garbage design? LOL

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That is normal for frameless window door cars with electric opening door latches.

The emergency handle is only supposed to be used in an emergency, so damage from forcing the past the seal isn't really a concern.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

That sounds like a horrible design for a car door lol. Did they not see how all the other car doors worked before they built theirs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Other car doors with frameless windows are the same way, what makes their case more special is the electronic latches and other cars with the style of window and electronic latches are the same way as Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah you should see the problems with Tesla's and water in the air vent system. They can't handle rain or car washes very well cause the dipshits who designed em never bothered to look at how actual car designers dealt with keeping water out of the venting system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well that's just shitty car design. Guess that's what you get when you have a bunch of software and computer engineers try to make a car.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

A lot oft cars do that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can just tell that most people here only read headlines. There was manual way to open the doors, that she didn't use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Enough time to RTFM unless Tesla doesn't include one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It's a PDF accessed via the touchscreen, because of course it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Whyyyyy do car manufacturers feel it is necessary to drive the car locking mechanism with software? What benefit does this give anyone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Is it me or does this seem staged? Or do I just automatically assume that when something gets 30 million views and the person looks like they brought in a stylist first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That's why you don't buy a Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like these cars should come with some level of training.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or critical systems shouldn't be rendered completely inoperable during shit like that.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

They aren't. If you refuse to use the manual release in order to get TikTok views, there's nothing the manufacturer can do.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is why trunks are required to have an emergency opening latch on the inside. Because children fucking died from exactly this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah good luck to the kids that needs too find this latch in pitch black.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This woman didn't even know about it and neither would those kids.

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