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[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 74 points 4 days ago

… with the Model Y in particular, not all vehicles come with manual releases for the rear doors, as Tesla warns in the car's manual. It's unclear if the Model Y involved in the crash was equipped with the emergency feature.

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 118 points 4 days ago

not all vehicles come with manual releases for the rear doors

That sounds... Well, fucking stupid.

[-] hannesh93@feddit.org 47 points 4 days ago

But it saves money - and that's certainly more important for Musk than a well-produced vehicle

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days ago

In the 80s we had this little crank. Car didn't need to be on. Crank wasn't electric. Crank was kid-powered. Your dad just yelled at you. "HEY!!!! ROLL THE WINDOW DOWN BACK THERE!!!! YA LITTLE SHIT!!!"

And you knew it was serious, because cars back then didn't have A.C unless you were rich. So it was 90 degrees and the inside of the car was 110. Because YOU said we should put the reflective cover in the winshield, so it wouldn't get so hot in the car, but nooooooooo, dad said you'd only be a minute in the store. Then you come back out 45 minutes later. Which as you know, in kid time is several weeks. So now it's hot in the car. And the seat vynal is burning your legs, because you wore shorts.

And so you ask if you can just open the car doors for a while before you get in, but noooooooo we got places to be.

And so now you're getting yelled at, to crank both windows down because SOMEONE is being an asshole.

But at least you're not burning in a vehicle with no way out!

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago
[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I knew there was a Y in there somewhere. Just every way I tried spelling it looked wrong.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

We would also have accepted "polychloroethene"

[-] venusaur@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So the earth has always been hot…

EDIT: reminder to never again make a bad joke about climate change on liberal social media

[-] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago

I think it was more of a long way to say "manual windows and door handles have worked since cars were invented, why are we reinventing the wheel and introducing new fail points on something like a door handle by making it electric?"

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

We should be asking this with everything, honestly. We don't need an electronic juice bag presser that "needs" to be connected to your wifi in order to work, or a fridge with a giant screen and camera on the inside so you can look at what's in the fridge without gasp opening the door!

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Juicero we hardly knew ye

[-] BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I agree wholeheartedly, believe me.

I have a lot of socially unpopular opinions regarding how technology has and is progressing, and how dependent we're becoming on all of it.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

manual windows and door handles have worked since cars were invented

Technically untrue: the first cars didn't have doors at all.

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Sure, if you think of the car as the earth, the windshield as greenhouse gases, and our political leaders/you as the dad having no idea what the hell they're talking about.

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