If a head-on collision happens at a speed great enough to hospitalize the driver for a month, the airbag should have deployed.

It is extremely rare for doors on both sides of the car to become stuck in a conventional car. One side (that takes the hit) yes, but not both.

The difference here is that the doors may not have been physically unable to open; it’s not terribly clear. The “Falcon doors” on the Model X require electricity to operate normally. In the event of a power-loss, you have to use the emergency release.

Yet the fact the driver’s airbag didn’t deploy is glazed-over. I’m not a fan of the falcon wings at all, but I’m more concerned with Tesla’s response and the fact that the driver airbag didn’t deploy in a head-on collision.

Because the 3 laws of robotics state that a robot must save its owner’s life even if its own life is in danger.

This robot clearly didn’t give a damn and didn’t open the gawd damn doors because it couldn’t take a couple hits and a few battery explosions. Gawd damn no good robot.

I’d say Tesla’s response is more of a story than anything else. Can you imagine of GM or Ford or Toyota came out after an accident and said “well yea, but this can happen to any car”. Like yea, no shit it can, but you don’t publicly say that you nitwits.

Because most doors aren’t massive, heavy, electronically-assisted systems that open upwards. A regular side-opening door getting stuck might be tough to break open, but these sound much more difficult.

That is insensitive. “3 weeks is pushing it”? Shall we quantify grief and put a specific limit on how long kurizmatik’s coworker gets to deal with the tragic and untimely loss of a sibling? Do you get to take longer if it’s a child or a spouse than a sibling? How about a cousin? What’s the amount of time that’s not…

Had a coworker throw a shit fit that another coworker took 3 weeks off when her younger sister died unexpectedly. His defense was, well when my Grandfather died at age 91 on a Thursday I was back to work on Monday. Pissed me right off. People grieve in different ways. His grandfather was 91, lived a full life and he…

That’s mancode for “I’m too lazy to do the hard work of raising a kid and will leave that to my wife”.

You know what nobody’s said on their deathbed? “I wish I’d worked more.”

To be fair the wife and kid probably wanted him to go back to work. I mean could you imagine spending more that a day with that guy?

Capitalism really does a number on some people.

A friend of my dad decided to get a Greek wife, he complained about the women in the US being too “artificial”, so he got himself a Greek bride. A Greek bride who was a LAWYER, a move my dad said was “The dumbest thing he’s done of a lot of dumb things!”. She soon was pregnant, but at the same time, she was going to…

Gotta agree with the late, great Roger Ebert: Only a foolish man attempts to buy love. The wise one is content to rent it.

To a significant extent this was because the war caused a serious sex imbalance, and a severe labor shortage in general. The estimate is that Soviet deaths during WWII were 20 million—and this is after Stalin had killed 6-10 million in the Ukrainian“famine” and the purges. The majority of war deaths were men.

Not to mention Melanoma came from extremely privileged-for-Slovenia circumstances. Her father was one of Tito’s guys, and he was supposedly a real operator. There are published stories about how everyone in the family was always dressed to the nines, had a taste for the finger things in life, and even owned a…

Not Melania’s case at all - She comes from a comfortable upper middle class background. She quit university to start “modeling.” Melania is a gold digger, not a desperate, needy, sad mail order bride. Check into her dad. He is eerily similar to 45.

My BIL married a Chinese woman whom he “courted” along with three other women. All of them were in such financially and socially difficult situations that they did the pick-me dance for a chance to wed a mediocre American.

You’re asking the wrong question. The right question is do they even care? My guess is no.