• moitoi@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    It was cold out, so she decided to take her Tesla Model X SUV for the four-minute drive rather than walk.

    It says everything.

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      1 year ago

      A four-minute drive is like a 20-minute walk. If it was really that cold, I may have done the same thing.

      The way you portray it, “it says everything,” is not fair - and yes, I know we’re talking about a billionaire. Like, she deserved to die because she didn’t want to walk in the cold.

      Her death shouldn’t have happened the way it did. And again, yes, I know she’s a billionaire, fuck billionaires, etc etc. But her mistake was her not being careful while driving, and potentially the car not being safe enough (e.g. doors jam-locked?)

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        It’s 100% Tesla’s fault. Mechanical way to open doors is not obvious and hidden, sometimes all together missing. And car relies on power to open the door, which runs out when submerged. Shit car with shit ideas. There’s a reason why windows easily shatter on cars and Musk and his cult followers seem to think getting out of car in case of emergency is less important than sounding cool.

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          The pressure of the water against the door would’ve prevented her from opening it regardless of the door’s mechanical features or power supply issues.

          The windows not shattering is absolutely a Tesla design flaw, but there’s no way that woman was ever going to open a door from inside a submerged car.