I’ve long thought electric door latches are a solution in search of a problem. Doubly stupid because you still need a manual latch, so now you need two latches. 

Interestingly, showing that there’s a reasonable alternative design is one way to prove a products liability case.

Because it’s futury!!

That only makes the decision to have electric door latches and completely hiding the manual releases all the more dumb knowing that they have caused people to die needlessly in the past.

There should be one handle per door, half pull - electronic, full pull mechanical.

No, he just doesn’t care if he does.

Electric door latches aren’t just a Tesla problem. I guess nobody remembers this story from back in 2015?

They did know. They simply didn’t care.

That front release is well designed and intelligently placed. The rear one is fucking stupid, and makes me wonder if they had 2 separate departments designing the front and rear doors. 

It doesn’t even matter if another car maker made the same dumb choice. It’s still dumb and dangerous no matter who is doing it.

“something that most owners, let alone a passenger in a panic, aren’t likely to have.”

My 992 has electronic door handles. If the power fails, guess how you open them? The same way you open them when the power is on. Same lever. It just uses the mechanical latch when there isn’t power. If Teslas were well-designed they would work the same way, but Teslas are low-end garbage.

“...EMERGENCY RELEASE LATCHES FOR THE MODEL Y’s REAR DOORS ARE HIDDEN BENEATH A MAT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DOOR POCKET. ONCE THAT’S REMOVED, A RED TAB OPENS AN ACCESS HATCH THAT REVEALS AN EMERGENCY RELEASE CABLE...!”

The last words your fast-googling friend will scream in the seconds between the crash and you all burning…

Thank God Tesla came along to save us from the horrors of manual door handles. If not for their work, imagine the terrors we would be forced to endure.

Data from Mars currently has to be cached at the relay to wait for a Deep Space Network dish to be available. They’re a very limited resource.

Musk is the dumbest dumbfuck to ever inherit a fortune. How did he see this playing out once he’d outlived his usefulness? He’s not part of the Family, he’s the hired help and he helped without getting paid in advance. Of course he’s getting stiffed and frozen out. Rich dumbfuck doesn’t even know how to behave rich…

Let the face eating begin.

But... I thought he was too busy running all his companies to even go to his court dates. How’s he got all this time to let Trump cheat at golf? And what’s that smell? Could it be a huge pile of weapons-grade bullshit?

Trump, Thiel, and Musk.

The NY Times has an article detailing other historical instances where rich businessmen are cast aside as soon as the candidate they backed was elected. I look forward to the meltdown playing out in real time on Twitter.