It’s no easier to break into than any other car (which you can also break into with a “slim jim”). I don’t see how the design makes it any easier to break into (given every car out there has latch cables that can be pulled to open the door, its just a matter of figuring out where it is).

Note, I’m not saying it’s not possible to do it with a mechanical latch (the earlier Model S/X in fact had that design also), but that the electronic door button design was introduced to deal with the frameless window drop down problem (ALA the Corvette). It’s one of multiple possible designs to deal with it (another…

I’m sure you can point to anecdotal accounts of 997 owners that have had no issues too, but that doesn’t really say much.

In a no power solution, you just potentially break or damage the trim. That’s a risk you take no matter which design you go with. Tesla later did a software update that would use the door ajar sensor to drop the window even when the manual release is pulled to mitigate the issue when there is still power and people…

I’m not talking about the Cybertruck, I’m talking about extended cab pickups. Because the front door closes on the rear door, you can’t open the rear door without opening the front one first.

You never sat in the rear seat of an extended cab? The front door closes on the rear. You can’t open the rear doors without opening the front one first.

Not universal at all. Some use prismatic cells, some use cylindrical. The module sizes and voltages are also completely different. As mentioned the most common modules out there will be ones from the Leaf and from Tesla. The most common motors are also from those.

The 997 uses a special lever that drops the glass, but from a quick search it’s extremely unreliable and breaks easily. A door button is going to be far more reliable (as per the Corvette design). Every design has its pros and cons.

Given the shenanigans done to the Cybertruck so far and not having seen the hitch break (other than the Whistlin Diesel test), I suspect that the limit is way over 160 lbs.

It is because rear door exit is not requirement (think about coupes, extended cabs, child locks). The presumption is you would exit through the front if necessary.

The electronic latch was introduced to deal with frameless windows. It allows the window to drop and clear the trim prior to the door opening.

In that case the lady was heavily drunk and there was no indication she confused the brake pedal with the accelerator. Rather the indication was she confused forward and reverse.

2022.40.4 had a bug that locked people out, but that does nothing about the manual latch. In fact, people used the manual latch to bypass it:

-Why not just employ motion-sensing to activate the cameras like every cheapo one security system on the market and only continuously record while driving?

The owner clearly reviewed and recorded the footage on their phone (which is why it’s posted). It’s trivial to just press the save button on the car while they were doing that (or more ideally, safely pause the recording and pull the drive). So they clearly had the time, they just didn’t do it.

Unless your car is equipped with the glass breakage package (which I don’t think any US cars are, I believe that is only offered in Europe) then glass breakage will not trigger a save. You would have to hope that Sentry mode would trigger, but again, it’s not clear Sentry was even active in this case.

Nope, that’s not how it works. If you have Sentry active, the Sentry mode will automatically move important moments it detects to the “Sentry Clips folder”. Those don’t get deleted automatically.

No need, the drive automatically wipes the video loop in 1 hour unless you explicitly press the save button to save a clip, or it was auto saved by other action (like Sentry mode, pressing the horn, or the crash module activating).

If Sentry was not on, it would not automatically save the clip. It would just be in the normal one hour video loop that automatically gets deleted after the time expires.

The USB drive wipes automatically in a one hour loop. The owner didn’t bother to copy it out or order the save button to save the specific clip into a different folder on the drive, so it got wiped.