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I thought his jeep issue was that P on the dial didn't actually guarantee the parking pawl was engaged to stop it from rolling. Separate from the lack of positive engagement with the P position, more about the physical disconnect between the two. Unless that was just the non-offensive language version of "user didn't turn the dial all the way and our polite warning chime was too polite"

At least you can still feel the rotating Jeep shitty gear selector.

Touchscreen controls on a Tesla have no feel or feedback. It's a touchscreen.

I'm more inclined to blame Tesla's electronic locks and confusing manual override before blaming the windows though

Quick, do you know which panel to remove to find the non-electronic manual override in a Tesla? Car is sinking fast and the electronics just shorted out from the lake.

But sure, tons of bad design decisions here. It's hard to blame any one of them as the singular cause. If Tesla had easier to use manual override doors instead of electronic locks, if the windows could be broken, if the screen wasn't a confusing touchscreen mess, etc. Etc. Lots of factors and all are the cause.

Accidents happen, and people panic. Maybe she thought she was pressing the breaks and made the problem worse. I highly doubt anyone would do it intentionally.

I don't know about you, but in these parts we spin the gear selector to random, floor it and yell "JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL!"

Hertz stopped offering Tesla rentals because Teslas are designed to go balls out when the pedal is lightly touched and too often that involves straight into a wall or a lake

One time I was climbing a rock in a park in Illinois, and reached up into a pile of finely-ground glass.

I managed to pick all but one little piece out of my fingers. That one piece was so far in I couldn’t get it.

Later on, I couldn’t find it. So I figured it had come out.

But a few weeks later my palm itched and that fucking piece of glass poked its way out of my palm.

But partially submerged when 20% of the door is still above water then yes it should be possible to still open the door

Partially submerged, the door would be very hard to open, due to water pressure. The water pressure needs to fully equalized between the inside and outside of the car.

Did we learn nothing from Mythbusters?

As Mythbusters proved, you wait until the car is almost full of water, and then open the door.

Yes, you wait for pressure to equalize. But in a Tesla after pressure has equalized and you could open the rear door, the manual rear seat door open is a pull string under a camouflaged panel at the bottom of the door pocket. A door pocket that is probably filled with stuff because Tesla added the door pocket so you can put stuff in it.

It's intentionally designed to be unsafe.

It's still possible to open it before the car submerges. It's also possible to open it if you have the wherewithal to wait until the inside is nearly full. That's providing you know where the damned release lever is. But if you're panicking and pushing the electronic release and nothing happens then you're going to die no matter what. Same too if the car is on fire or whatever.

I hate Tesla and traded mine in after only two months of ownership, but in no way is the lever hidden or not extremely obvious. In fact it is more obvious than the button. Several times I had passengers try to use the manual lever, which doesn't lower the window when used. After the second person did it, moving forward I told every person who hadn't been in my car before to use the button before getting out. Was one of the many reasons I traded it in.

There is apparently a manual lever hidden underneath the button,

"hidden"

No, more often, it's smash the laminated window, get confused and then smash another window. If the 2nd window isn't laminated, they're in, if it is laminated too, then they smash your quarter glass since they're basically never laminated.