Rat Race 2025

The windows only need to move enough to pry them and break them. If the edge of the glass is protected it can be very durable. but if the edge is exposed it’s 50x weaker.

It’s not the exact same situation. Cars with conventional electric door locks unlock the door upon the triggering of the airbags, allowing the manual handles on the outside of the car to allow access by rescuers.

Door locks are used for locking the door. In many cars those are automatically released on release of the airbags. This also allows external rescuers to open the doors.

You miss the secret. The manual release is wimpy crap. They could have added a microswitch so that as soon as it is pulled the window cranks down, just like using the button, but then people would wear out the crappy manual release. You get to yell at people for Tesla’s poor design decision.

That is a huge lever with the door lock button in the middle of it.

I had a car new from 1987 that had frameless windows.

You had to stop them because the design sucks. The manual release should durable enough to use every single time, but I bet it isn’t durable. So they didn’t add a back-up switch to drop the window however far to the manual release and then make it the owner’s problem to fix the now improperly operating window.

It would be trivial to wire a window retract switch to the manual release as there is zero chance a passenger can snap the door open faster than the window can move a few millimeters.

The GPS is in the cell phone and the find-it function is shipped as part of every iPhone to report every tag that is near an iPhone that is part of the find-it network.

Best deal - a wrap designed to look like brushed stainless steel. 

They also have plasticizers and trap moisture. 

You mean the car that will smell like probable cause to every drug sniffing mutt the police own until it goes to the crusher? 

Metallurgists call it corrosion resistant steel, not stainless, which was more of a trade name for high chromium steel.

Road wear is not linear- double the weight on wheels and the damage goes up more than 2X. The majority of the road damage is done by trucks and buses.

After a few seconds it’s not clear he knows what he is chasing. I think the car he was after turned off the road and was hidden early on.

If every time a crime was committed the police just happened to catch them within minutes on a traffic stop, that might have some weight, but instead one needs to look at the cost to make that ID in terms of people and property being obliterated.

Americans are not fans of government/private business gaming the speed cams. 

The entire time they are fleeing they are on every display screen for every cop car for miles around. Cops won’t be losing sight of them for even one second. Perhaps add in those money-bag dye packs to explode if there is a removal attempt without saying the magic word. 

Neighbor had their car stolen. It was never chased. It was finally found wrapped around a phone pole when the joy riders were done with it.