4w ago

Tesla sued by family of California teenager killed in fiery Cybertruck crash

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Cybertruck crashes, catches on fire.
Fire or power outage disables electronic door handles inside the cybertruck.
Passengers can't find or don't know about the hidden manual door release.
Passengers too weak or injured or panicked and can't break the (edit: damage resistant Armor Glass) windows to escape.
Passengers die from smoke inhalation.
Tragic, but this will go nowhere. All modern cars have autolocks, so whether there is a handle or not is irrelevant. Owners need to read their manuals. Cybertrucks do not have armoured glass, because it was never legal. Auto glass is designed to break on the side windows, they cannot be laminated like front and rear windows. You would think Elon Musk, who "knows more about manufacturing than anyone in the world" would have known this at his live demo.
They might have case on the use of the thick stainless steel doors, because EMTs cannot wedge these open. But as long as people knowingly want to buy tanks then they have to accept the risks of tanks.
- Laminated glass is allowed anywhere in a vehicle. Laminated side windows are perfectly legal.
- The last time you had a passenger in your car's back seat, did you force them to read the car's manual?
  No?
  What about the last time you rode in the back seat of someone else's car? Taxi? Uber/Lyft/Waymo?
  No?