Are you going to share your findings or is this more of a private kink.

Good thing I took my shoes off and my laptop out of the bag though. 

Me, after reading the headline: “Don’t they have some sort of lost tool protocol?”

If the 4-foot piece of nylon got sucked into the engine, the results could have been catastrophic.

The spot and description appear to be the outlet guide vanes for the fan nozzle, which is the “bypass” part of the compressor stage in a high bypass turbofan engine. They don’t spin, they just straighten air coming out to make it less turbulent.

I don’t feel so bad now about the 3 to 4 10mm sockets somewhere in the engine bay of my car.

I’ve been in a worse accident than this that was a head-on collision in a 1989 Dodge Shadow. The only door that couldn’t open on the car was the driver door. The other three were just fine. I have a hard time believing this accident cause all 4 doors to be unable to open. And if it did, that is yet another example of…

It’s literally a picture on a button on the door. I personally don’t see how anyone could not see that before thinking, “say... maybe that piece of plastic that is not at all designed as a handle is somehow a handle!”

And Elon’s stan fanbois will have a standing applause while compliment him as visionary while saying “brilliant, with bigger ship and fewer lifeboats means the ship can have much more space”

It was that one or another case, and I repeatedly called Chevy morons for that design decision. Tesla has even less excuse with such a prominent example of door latch stupidity.

The real tragedy is that the Corvette mechanical release is a lot more obvious than Tesla’s integration. For the Corvette it is a lever on the floor of the car that you pull up towards you (like a hand brake), adjacent to the door opening. Although I can fully understand that during a moment of panic, someone might…

I thought Mercedes or BMW had a feature where it automatically rolled all the windows down after a crash?

When I got a rental Model Y, I had to sit at the airport rental lot watching YouTube videos to find out how to start the thing. Apparently you wave your hotel room card over an unmarked section of the arm rest.  Obviously. /s

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.

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.

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

“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…