...if he’d been driving the car that that counts as a “casual understanding of how it functions.”

A system without some kind of override would be very very sketchy.

Up to 80?????

But one that travels at Mach 0.8 at FL35 is fine right?

I agree - the designers need to take personal responsibility for this usability problem.

my point is that very few react logically in a panic situation— like being locked in a car, or with the gas pedal ‘stuck’.

Are you really going to read 300 pages of the manual before you set off?

let me remind you of the entire ‘HELP HELP, MY CAR WON’T STOP’

Yes - losing the ability to think clearly is a good symptom.

All of them.

Great! Thanks for outing yourself as a software engineer. Quit changing shit just to change it!

So don’t give me that ‘oh just skim through and read the important parts’.

Heat stroke? He had the presence of mind to take off his shoe and pee in it, but he was physically incapable of feeling around for a manual door release?

I will never understand how a carmaker can make a door latch so complex that you have to study the manual to open the door.

Do you know have a full understanding of how your phone or internet service works?

So, the manual release for the door is actually a pretty big and obvious lever on the floor behind where the trunk release usually is on most cars. How is it that for almost 14 hours, it never occurred to, I dunno, look around for ways out? 

I will never understand how people willingly trust their lives to a metal box they travel in at up to 80 mph with out the even a casual understanding of how it functions...

Surely your name’s not Shirley.

All the floors missing from my cars, all the loose frame cross-members, all the rusted rocker panels, all the missing frame horns

COTD