Or you know, design it like other cars and have a fucking key hole that’s accessible without doing that.

Clearly you have never seen the pockets on women’s pants. Pockets which in many cases, do not exist. So pocket knives not really an option for everyone.

Every car: electric, hybrid, or ICE, should be legally required to always have at least one 100% mechanical lock and door mechanism.

That’s why it locked her kid in and tried to roast it: reducing competition for Musk’s progeny. 

With the Mercedes flush handles, you can still pull them out and insert the key to unlock the vehicle if they stop working. Does Tesla not have a physical key hole? If not, this is why you don’t go full on electronic with things like a door.

Sure it almost killed my child.

Yea but then you’d have to have it on you. Im guessing this woman left her bag in the car which had her key. Not sure where her phone is and why it wasn’t working as the key though. Maybe her phone was in her purse and the car lost connection with it, thinking she had left the car, hence locking the doors.
Frankly, I…

Jesus only an hour?? So if someone keys your car or something but you don’t come back to your car in under an hour you have zero video??

This should be formally investigated, not just because of the car unexplainably locking and trapping the child inside, but also because the video footage has mysteriously gone missing. Didn’t Tesla get in trouble recently for employees watching and sharing customer videos without permission?

Good on her for valuing the life of her child over her car window.

Doesn’t even need to be that, anything with a point that you can hit from the other end will work to be honest. That said this should never have happened. Also something I learned from a misspent youth, porcelain, like say from part of a spark plus works REALLY freaking well to shatter a car window lol.  

If it were a CT she could have just ripped the window down like cheap wallpaper.

There was until the OTA wipe request got sent from Austin.

with little in the way of answers offered by the automaker so far.

“The FAA refused to comment on if this system was operating during the incident.”

We’ve tried everything, except paying people what the job is worth, and we’re all out of ideas!

aircraft tire SME here, and came to post this. In my field we refer to the release plugs you mention as “fuse plugs”. Blowing the fuse plugs is usally a delayed effect thing, as you need time for the heat to go from the brakes to the wheel where the use plugs are. Most aircraft I work with have fuse plugs that melt in…

Agree. The photo shows deflated, not “burst” tires in the catastrophic sense.

It seems dirty that they even mention Boeing in the headline.

Chicken and egg staffing prob, rather common I think. Cant get new employees because the job is too stressful unless fully staffed. But cant get fully staffed without new employees. Almost have to bring in a bunch at once (to prove “fully staffed” to the other noobs), but then really hard to train so many in parallel.