silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open | There are no official statistics on the dangers of electric handles. So Bloomberg did its own analysis.www.bloomberg.comexternal-linkmessage-square76linkfedilinkarrow-up1560cross-posted to: fuckcars@lemmy.world
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minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-21 month agoI feel like when operating a lethal hunk of metal at such speeds, perhaps it should be a requirement to RTFM. For several reasons.
minus-squarecomrade_twisty@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoUp until about 15 years ago any person who knew how to drive any random car would have been able to operate about 99% of all cars in existence safely without ever looking at a fucking manual.
minus-squareSreudianFlip@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoNow, my manual gearbox is a theft deterrent.
minus-squarextr0n@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoSo if I call an Uber and it’s a Tesla, it’s my fault if I can’t escape after a crash cuz I didn’t RTFM?
minus-squaretibi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoWhat about the passengers? You can’t expect them to read the manual of every vehicle they go into. In an accident the driver could be incapacitated.
I feel like when operating a lethal hunk of metal at such speeds, perhaps it should be a requirement to RTFM. For several reasons.
Up until about 15 years ago any person who knew how to drive any random car would have been able to operate about 99% of all cars in existence safely without ever looking at a fucking manual.
Now, my manual gearbox is a theft deterrent.
So if I call an Uber and it’s a Tesla, it’s my fault if I can’t escape after a crash cuz I didn’t RTFM?
What about the passengers? You can’t expect them to read the manual of every vehicle they go into. In an accident the driver could be incapacitated.