Numerous Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power. Here's how to manually open a Tesla door if you get stuck inside.
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A Tesla's manual door releases can be tricky to find if you haven't read the owner's manual. Here's how to locate and activate them in the Tesla Model S, 3, X, and Y.

Numerous Tesla owners say they’ve been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.::Numerous Tesla owners say they have been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power.Teslas come with manual door releases, but they can be hard to find

    • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      Im surprised thats not a NHTSA mandate. Its a safety thing. Like why you have to have a windsheild and mirrors on a car. Even if you can remove the windshield (ie: Jeep Wranglers) if you are caught on the road with it down, you are gonna get a ticket.

      • bob@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Isn’t there a way to submit that idea to the NHTSA?

        • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          I believe you can write them. Based on this, it does appear to mandate that you have to have a release on the inside. bUT it doesn’t say it has to be manual and it doesn’t necessarily say it has to be operable at all times.

          That said, at the least, it would seem BMW would be in violation of the spirit of the law at least, and probably the letter too.

          Teslas less so since they have an manual override but it being hidden and not well labeled is it’s own issue.

          https://www.nhtsa.gov/interpretations/08-000497-16-jan-09-rewrite

        • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          Motorcycles arent cars and arent treated as such. But anyone thats driven one knows how shitty it is to drive one with no protection on your face. Even a juicy bug at 70 mph doesnt feel awesome.

                • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
                  1·
                  10 months ago

                  Windshield regulations are also done at the state level.

                  I’m not really interested in getting into a giant pedantic argument about the specific crack conditions you can and can’t drive with. It’s not really even the point nor is it what I stated (and let’s be serious you know what was meant). And if it makes you sleep better, whatever, you win. Your a DOT genius.

                  As to the windshield question. I have gotten multiple tickets for it, in my younger years when I would muck around in my shitty jeep wrangler. But im not really that invested to go digging through all the intracacies of DOT, nhtsa and state laws on the matter. Because I don’t really care.

                  Have a good day

    • ThePac@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Listen, r/technology needs its antimusk fix, OK? Teslas are pig piles of shit and people who likes theirs are simply too stockholmedf/sunkcost/whatever to see it.