Rescuer at Fatal Tesla Cybertruck Crash Says Car Doors Wouldn't Open
Rescuer at fatal Tesla Cybertruck crash says car doors wouldn't open
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/654475
Do we have a tally somewhere of people killed by Teslas? I bet they racked up quite the high score up until now.
warning: there's a lot :/
There's some disagreement about how Tesla's safety compares to other brands though, with one study giving it the highest fatal accident rate and others giving Tesla a good safety score.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/01/11/tesla-fatality-rates/
I was gonna say that given that there's about 40k traffic deaths per year in the US, 700 deaths from Tesla seems low. But I looked up deaths over distance and Tesla is in fact in the lead with 5.6 deaths per billion miles. Kia and Buick coming up behind them with 5.5 and 4.8 respectively.
Should we really be counting the ones where someone else rear ends a tesla and dies? That's like saying the stairs killed someone who tripped over their own feet and fell down them.
Is that more or less than any other car maker?
Who cares, FSD is so safe that doors opening in emergencies isn’t really necessary.
I’m joking of course, fuck.
"You're crashing it wrong"
They didn't put it in crash mode before the collision. 100% the owners responsibility.
Wcgw when there's no physical override?
There’s an app for that.
I don’t know why anyone would ever buy a Tesla
Engineers stopped doing things simply because analysts determined that businesses can make more money by selling products with complicated and unnecessary garbage.
Of course, no sympathy for people who get screwed over for buying a car that costs more than my house.
Another person who saw wealth as something to be used for status, not to help those who have less. Rest in piss.
Where can you can buy a house for $70k?
You can buy a lot and park a trailer on it for less than that in the midwest. They never said it was a nice house in a nice location.
There are some real dumps in the world. The house can be fine but if the neighbourhood is bad it's going to affect the price no matter what else is going on.
I played Cyberpunk 2077 and Hitman: World of Assassinations. In Cyberpunk 2077 one hack in the game is to literally make the car explode (you need to be a high level Netrunner for that) and other hacks involve making the car accelerate unstoppably or engage emergency brakes (rendering it immobile). I've seen Teslas not only burn like hell with the doors somehow having an autolock feature always engaging at that time. It just makes me wonder how long it will be before one such Tesla fire is found to be a deliberate action by another to commit murder?
I am surprised that it hasn't happened yet.
it hasn't happened because the cars can do it on their own just fine
Good morning 47, your target is WhatsHisAss, he drives a tesla and... oh, never mind. It set itself on fire, return to the safe house. You'll receive the money for all expenses since you didn't technically kill the guy...
I think Musk has openly stated that he wants to be Arasaka
Remember Musk has access to all the car switches, pedals, steering, etc. if it happens often enough, it won't be odd when it's convenient for him that someone is burned alive in one of his mobile ovens.
go back to playing video games, kid
I'm probably older than you.
You can hack cars and it has happened in the past but usually it requires physical access to the car. Even today they don't really have network access which would open the entire car OS up to the internet (For what should be fairly obvious reasons). So you can't just install a virus.
Of course if you do have physical access to the car you could just do something much less sophisticated like planting a bomb, it seems unnecessarily complicated to develop a system that would wait until the car is in a vulnerable position and then take control and crash it.
Everything in a Tesla is remote controllable, down to the odometer. It's through Tesla's own system but I am 100% sure that system has an Internet connection.
Heck I patched in my non-smart-car into my smarthome using an Onstar integration, I can lock and start it using Siri. Tesla's system is just a way beefier version of Onstar. I wouldn't be shocked if there was an app just for Elon to play with it all.
You can pop trunks and doors on a Tesla wirelessly using a flipper zero, which anyone can buy for ~100 bucks.
I'm pretty sure that Teslas do have network access as they're updated remotely. Unless I'm misremembering.
Most modern cars automatically lock doors when you reach certain speed (like 20km/h). I checked and automatically unlocking door on impact is a separate feature that may or may not be present in a car. So I think you won't be able to open most modern cars from the outside after a crash. The only difference is that you will open other cars from the inside without issues while in Tesla you have to use other door handle in front seats and it's really complicated to open them from the back seats. Is that right?
which is so stupid, who would break in your car at 20kmh?
I always thought the opposite would make much more sense, locking doors when you're below 10kmh and unlocking once driving
Firefighters always struggle more to open locked doors (duh) as much as I hate those, I don't think it's something specific to it.
The article is from march and the accident happened in November 2024.
That's pretty normal in a car crash, no? The frame crumples and the doors often get stuck.
Except in these, there are no fucking handles. So, even if you tried. Nope. No power no open. And with the hardened glass that would normally allow a rescuer to just shatter a window... Nope.
Enjoy dying in a fire.
Yeah, facts would be useful here, rather than speculation
Maybe the lack of mechanical latch is to blame but we don’t know that yet
Cars unlock the doors during a crash and this has been the standard for quite some time.
It's called a fail safe the clue is in the name. The failure mode of a mechanism is it's safe mode.
In cars with mechanical locks they require power to be in the locked position in the unlocked position a solenoid loses power and a mechanical spring pulls it into the unlocked position. So when it fails and loses power the default is to unlock. Sure the mechanism could become damaged and bent out of shape but we're talking about a sliding bolt here, something that can be manipulated with a mechanical lever like a key.
Known bug.
Out of scope. Won't be fixed.