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[–] cosmicrookie 141 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Tesla offers manual door releases for situations with depleted power, but Janel opted to wait, fearing potential damage to her car. "Inside my car, it's 103 degrees, so I'm slightly freaking out. I hope I don't run out of air," "I can't open up the doors or the windows otherwise I could potentially damage my car, so I'm just stuck in here roasting like a frickin chicken dripping sweat,"

I hope that I don't die of suffocation and heat, but I can't afford my car breaking if I OPEN THE DOOR in the middle of an update.

[–] ch00f 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She’s a moron. Normally when you open the door, the windows will slide down a half inch so they can clear the weather stripping as the door opens.

The emergency release just opens the door so the window will kind of drag through the weather stripping. I guess if you do this enough, it could damage the rubber seal. The car will warn you about it if you open the door that way, but by no means is it worth sweating to death in a car to avoid.

[–] Hildegarde 59 points 1 month ago (16 children)

The one time I rode in a tesla, the car showed an angry message on the center screen because I opened the door with the door handle and that was wrong somehow. Apparently there's a secret second door handle that doesn't damage the weatherstripping.

Most car manufacturers have this figured out, they quite cleverly make the normal door handle and the manual release be the same handle.

[–] stankmut 45 points 1 month ago

It's not a secret door handle, it's a button with a picture of an open car door on it . The problem is that the emergency latch is closer to where a normal door handle is, so people looking down for the handle see it first. The button is just a little further forward and a little higher than people expect, so they always miss it.

It's still a bad design.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What she did was stupid, but its really easy for people to push themselves thinking they are fine until they suddenly aren't. I'm sure she was thinking she could just open the door when it got too bad.

[–] cosmicrookie 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So instead of opening the door when it got too hot, she made a 40min Tik Tok that has been watched by more than 30mil viewers, documenting her fear for suffocating or having a heat stroke

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

GenZ is ruining heat stroke

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[–] givesomefucks 131 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

So obviously, fuck Teslas.

But it says she didn't used the manual release because she thought it might somehow hurt her car?

And she didn't update it for 6 years and choose waiting for a Chick-fil-A order was the right time, even tho she expected it to take 24 minutes?

Like, what kind of Chick-fil-A takes 24 minutes to make an order, she knew it would be ready before it's done.

This is one of those situations where there's no victim, she's an idiot but Tesla's suck

[–] yggdar 37 points 1 month ago

According to the article she did update the car before. She just used to have it done at night, and this is the first time she was in the car during an update.

40 minutes is a hell of a long time for a software update though.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She's 100% an idiot. When a Tesla needs updating it gives you the option between scheduling it later (by default 2am) or doing it now. When you select do it now it specifically warns you some features may NOT be available and list both the HVAC and doors.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The diors not being available during an update is stupid design.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

That TikTok, as 99% of others, is concentrated bullshit.

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[–] Buddahriffic 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

She is dumb for not using the manual release but why the fuck does it take 40 minutes to do an update?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Have you ever run a software upgrade to another brand of car? I was once present when a BMW was updated and it took 40 minutes to scan the CAN for all of the control network members, after which the update could start.

[–] Buddahriffic 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shitty design is still shitty design, even if all car makers are bad at it.

And I'd bet it comes down to hardware decisions that ended up saving tiny percentages of the total cost.

[–] TechNerdWizard42 19 points 1 month ago

It's more the opposite. The hardware level updaters, are usually small pieces of non-updateable code called bootloaders. These are purposefully made small, slow, and ROBUST. They do parity checks on everything, status checks, store local copies of data transfer in weird esoteric ways to not be disturbed during the actual update.

The issue is that you can make it work 99% of the time without issue way faster. But bricking a car that then has to be towed for free to a service center and flashed is super expensive. So the fix is slow and robust updates that happen when the user isn't even there.

[–] Professorozone 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

LOL my cars are from 1988, 1999 and 2003. I don't get updates. I do have to do a lot of repairs, but no updates.

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[–] enbyecho 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it me or does this seem staged? Or do I just automatically assume that when something gets 30 million views and the person looks like they brought in a stylist first.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Thade780 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Understandably, she grew anxious about running out of air as the windows wouldn't roll down.

Didn't know Teslas were air sealed... 🤣

[–] machinin 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't remember Musk talking about biohazard mode? If you aren't a nerdy user that tries to understand all the details, it might be easy to confuse.

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[–] chknbwl 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Engineering aside, Tesla cars simply have terrible build quality. They're like the Stellantis of the EV market now. Why anyone still buys them new it seems I will never understand.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tesla offers manual door releases for situations with depleted power, but Janel opted to wait, fearing potential damage to her car.

Are Teslas made from tracing paper? How would manually opening the door damage her car?

[–] EnderLaw 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Normally, when you want to open the door, you push the door button, the door window drops and opens an inch or so, clearing to door seals. The emergency door releases force the windows through the door seals without the window drop. If you do that too much, you'll damage the door seals. If you do it rarely, it doesn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Just another incredible design flaw that never should have made it to production.

[–] RagingRobot 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That sounds like a horrible design for a car door lol. Did they not see how all the other car doors worked before they built theirs?

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[–] JeffreyOrange 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can just tell that most people here only read headlines. There was manual way to open the doors, that she didn't use.

[–] dustyData 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

She wasn't in danger for sure, but she also didn't want to risk harming the trim of her already quickly depreciating car. Remember that Tesla, in their infinite design wisdom, decided the window trim should overlap the glass and be fixed. If you use the manual release the door opens without opening the windows, thus bending and risking destroying the window trim.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lol what a load of shit. This chick is dumb at least 3 ways:

  1. The app and the car warn you that the thing will be unavailable when you select update. GET OUT of the car. Has she never seen the warnings of how fast a car heats up? Like why you can't leave your dog or a kid in the car to run into a store "really quick"?

  2. Literally 2 in every 3 people who ride in your car pull the manual release. It is not a big deal if you don't use it every time. It's as though she's never had a passenger in 6 years. I just don't buy it.

  3. Most importantly, THIS IS WHAT THE MANUAL LATCH IS DESIGNED FOR.

There are many, MANY design features of a Tesla that suck (as anyone who has one will tell you), but article is clickbait from user stupidity. She needs to wear her helmet at all times for not using the feature designed to let her get out at any moment. Even IF she bent the weather stripping, it would cost less than her chicken sandwiches to fix.

[–] Etterra 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This is why trunks are required to have an emergency opening latch on the inside. Because children fucking died from exactly this.

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[–] BluesF 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Whyyyyy do car manufacturers feel it is necessary to drive the car locking mechanism with software? What benefit does this give anyone?

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[–] Fedizen 13 points 1 month ago

seems like a webcar is a bad idea

[–] Blaster_M 12 points 1 month ago

Skill issue

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

That's why you don't buy a Tesla.

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