Still better than when I dressed a bear in a man costume to commit all those white collar crimes.

The rear door releases are hidden to prevent children from pulling it. Putting it in an obvious place would defeat the purpose of child locks.

Low orbit’s one thing, but Mars is a great deal further away. Heck, even the Moon is a great deal further way. The signal loss is the real problem. The reason the DSN antennas have such huge dishes is similar to why optical telescopes like to have big mirrors — aperture is king when you want to observe very faint…

“But it could also come down to familiarity: you’ve probably seen hundreds of Model S’s and have become used to them”

Those emergency trunk release handles are visible and glow in the dark. Why is it allowed for an actual emergency door release handle to be completely hidden from view.

I’m fully in favor of calling out disingenuous Elmo-Stanning when it happens, and this guy’s a Level 99 Elmo-Stan, but in this case, I kind of agree with him, however reluctantly. The driver side is very mangled. And the rear emergency releases are less than ideal. I’d say “idiotic, dangerous, and warranting…

In all likelihood, it was marketing people asking “Can you move that ugly lever somewhere else?” Not knowing, or caring, what it was.  Just caring about making it look pleasing to the eye.  

“When people think of spaceflight’s Apollo era, it’s either a bygone period of relentless exploration or it was completely faked.”

Having driven Tesla’s before, it was the first place I looked for a manual release, not even knowing if there is one. Even if it’s not evident at a glance, it’s the first logical place you’d check for one. The fact that the bezel around the window switch isn’t one solid piece clues you in to something moveable being…

You’d be surprised. I’ve had to stop people quite a few times because the placement of the front emergency release is so prominent. 

Why be upset at all. Even in a McClaren, all he did was raise the value of every other one left. Sure, his is gone, but who would really want to buy a super/hyper car that an influencer owned. They treat their cars like garbage.

It’s not invisible. It’s right there, and actually more prominent than the electric release, to the point that Tesla owners are constantly telling their passengers to stop pulling the wrong handle.

You might find it unlikely but the reality is people unfamiliar with the car are just as likely to use it. Had it happen multiple times myself and like the other person I now warn people not to use it as it can damage the windows. To the uninitiated, it is much more obvious that is a handle to open the door than the…

Admit it, we’ve all wanted to do something like this. Perhaps on a much smaller scale. I watched a guy try and see how many pieces of paper it would take to hold his body up on a pull-up bar; same idea but much less expensive.

My mom has a Model 3 that I’ve driven quite a bit. I’ve had people find the manual release for the front doors by accident in it, so it’s not too terrible. But hers doesn’t even have a manual release for the rear doors; I’ve checked. And even when they have them, wow that is an awful design.

When I owned a Model Y, I had more issues with people using the emergency release than anything. Using it requires re-indexing the windows, which isn’t a huge deal but kind of a nuisance. I got in the habit of telling every passenger that they needed to press the button to exit, not use the very obvious emergency…

I used to live near Scottsboro, Alabama. They are very proud of this place called Unclaimed Baggage, where they buy lost luggage and sell all the stuff they find. In general, it was a great place to get stuff like Bose QC headsets and iPads and nice clothes fairly inexpensively.

Considering the range of manual releases out there this one is just middle of the pack if you remove the “emergency” from it and check your bias at the door. Maybe you need a handle smack in the middle of your face so you bang into it every time the driver hits the brakes, but for most we know handles are somewhere on…

It is super cool, I‘m glad you’re enjoying it!

That front release is well designed and intelligently placed. The rear one is fucking stupid, and makes me wonder if they had 2 separate departments designing the front and rear doors.