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Does this guy qualify for lolcow of the year? No other lolcow got kicked out of the whitehouse and has videos of innocent people burning to death in their cars
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Not all electric cars, my non-tesla EV just has normal handles.I believe the reason why electric cars all have those flush door handles is because of aerodynamics. Electric cars are competing for range in the market because you can always get further with less effort in a gas car currently. So any amount of energy loss electric cars can reduce (thus extending a battery charges range) the better. Until those energy saving designs start killing people of course.
If one's retarded enough to buy that garbage then they should just be left inside in the case of a lithium runaway event. Live by the lithium die by the fire.And the cyber trucks unbreakable windows have already been called out by fire fighters as a super retarded idea. Takes way more work to break through them and rescue the passengers.
It's just Tesla wannabe luxury cars that are like this. Other EVs are quite normal. By statistics, EVs aren't any safer or more dangerous compared to ICEs.How are these electric death traps even still road legal?
Genuine question.
There's a really ghetto house near me that's run the fuck down with an unfinished addition sticking out over the top, holes in the siding, and the roof caving in.... with a cybertruck parked out in front under a car port (a new larger port, the old one was too short..which was pretty funny). Priorities, I guess. There has been a "HOUSE FOR SALE" sign out in front for a while now. Not surprisingly there's no takers for a rundown crackden, even in this market.If one's retarded enough to buy that garbage then they should just be left inside in the case of a lithium runaway event. Live by the lithium die by the fire.
Men who don't work in trade that buy these shitty trucks are always compensating for something. They're the same kind that would make fun of women for buying a $3500 handbag they certainly don't need.There's a really ghetto house near me that's run the fuck down with an unfinished addition sticking out over the top, holes in the siding, and the roof caving in.... with a cybertruck parked out in front under a car port (a new larger port, the old one was too short..which was pretty funny). Priorities, I guess. There has been a "HOUSE FOR SALE" sign out in front for a while now. Not surprisingly there's no takers for a rundown crackden, even in this market.
Um, well, DUH.That doesn't explain the inside of the car though. The outside being electronic only is bad enough but tolerable, but on the inside there is no excuse for the opening mechanism to be all electronic and not just regular handles. Like I said: there is no reason they couldn't design the inside handle so that gently pulling on it triggers the electronics but a hard and desperate pull would break a seal and trigger the emergency opening that they already have in place WITHOUT the stupid hidden mechanism in place.
You are welcome, gweilo.Tesla’s Head of Design, Franz von Holzhausen, recently spoke about the upcoming Chinese regulations and how Tesla is working on redesigning its interior and exterior door handles to meet these new requirements. During the interview, Franz stated that Tesla’s teams are looking to combine the electronic and manual door-release mechanisms into a single button or lever. The goal is to make the handles more intuitive for occupants, so that if the electronic button fails to open the door, the mechanical release can be triggered by presumably pressing the button or handle harder. We recently took a look at a potential new design.
Well, you can get a cybertruck, complete with the font from the cover of the old Cyberpunk RPG.If I'm going to live in a cyberpunk mega corp. hellscape, at least give me some Blade Runner achitecture and flying cars, not everything from the 1990's/2000's but falling apart athestitics.
u mean the thing controlled by a pajeet with a mocap device?Tesla Robot
also make sure to add easily accessible backup opening handles, hidden inside a panel for the futuristic aesthetics elon's obsessed with (the panel is still marked so that people will know it exists)There's no need for AI for this. If you're going to have fly-by-wire doors how about auto-open the doors if the inside temp gets too high? Even doubles as a don't-leave-your-kids-to-cook-alive-in-your-cars fail safe which might get some good press.
Never before has our species had to contend with social media, and the near instant and unlimited access to it with modern smartphones.There will never be any actual cool shit made. Why? There's no reason to. There is no market incentive to do so when you can just lie and say you did like a child and you have an army of insane people and jeets who reinforce that lie. No matter the truth, the stock price still goes up.
Which is funny because this works fine on the Model S, which is largely made using Mercedes parts. The “emergency release” on that is the same handle as the electronic release, you just pull it a bit further, so you don’t have to do anything different to get out if the car is bricked.Because Tesla, unlike Mercedes 30+ years ago, cannot for the life of them figure out how to have frameless windows that go down with mechanical releases reliably
Never before has our species had to contend with social media, and the near instant and unlimited access to it with modern smartphones.
It’s an adjustment period. The black plague killed half.
Now half of brains are being rotted.
Natural selection takes over, as it always has. It won’t (necessarily) be better but it will be different and possibly more efficient. Eventually.
Except boomers are the ones always on their phones.It really is just smartphones. It’s the most boomer thing ever to say but it’s true.
If by war you mean drones.Once the game of musical chairs stops it will end the same way the Great Depression did in 1939 - war.
Yep. No "jacking into the Matrix" with neural wetware to steal secrets from a tech company run by a dragon - just a bunch of Trust Fund Babies standing around and claiming they made the hottest new tech toy that really does not add to anyone's quality of life in anyway. There is no innovation, ambition, or evolution anymore - just Grifting and Ego-Stroking.we live in a cyberpunk dystopia without any of the cool cyberpunk stuff
Take the "Tesla Robot" for example - something that will never make it to market or be practical in any way, and something that we've had the technology to do for about 3 decades now. These retards will play pretend with each other and get other retards to believe them. This has been Elon's entire source of wealth. Him, and likewise many others, entire source of wealth is derived from fraud.
Exactly. It's like with that Theranos chick, who tried to be Steve Jobs with a vagina, right down to the black turtlenecks and odd way of comporting herself. She overpromised and underdelivered on something she could not do with the time, money, and resources she had, but she she had a jeet boyfriend who lied to the right people and kept the gravy train going longer than it should have. I suspect they thought if they kept the grift going on long enough, the tech would either catch up to them or could pawn it off on some other buyer and make it someone else's problem to deal with.There will never be any actual cool shit made. Why? There's no reason to. There is no market incentive to do so when you can just lie and say you did like a child and you have an army of insane people and jeets who reinforce that lie. No matter the truth, the stock price still goes up.
Does this guy qualify for lolcow of the year? No other lolcow got kicked out of the whitehouse and has videos of innocent people burning to death in their cars
I honestly don’t know what can even explain the over-engineered nightmare that the interiors of electric cars are. The only consistent design present is the steering wheel and maybe the pedals, everything else is all moved around and weird. My unsubstantiated theory is that it’s a combination of unchecked nerds and overzealous U.S patent laws which creates a design environment where different = better while similar = lawsuits.
Probably because it would end up much like the self driving and other "A.I." memes going around: It would work decently enough about 90% of the time, and then catastrophically and retardedly fail in a spectacular and mind blowingly stupid way 10% of the time. Like opening the doors with the car outside in the middle of a snowstorm or thinking that your kids screaming because they are stupid kids is serious screams of pain and opening the doors while going 110kmh on the highway.
That doesn't explain the inside of the car though. The outside being electronic only is bad enough but tolerable, but on the inside there is no excuse for the opening mechanism to be all electronic and not just regular handles. Like I said: there is no reason they couldn't design the inside handle so that gently pulling on it triggers the electronics but a hard and desperate pull would break a seal and trigger the emergency opening that they already have in place WITHOUT the stupid hidden mechanism in place.
- Tesla hit with second lawsuit this week over fatal Cybertruck crash in California.
- Parents allege Tesla ignored safety flaw that trapped victims inside burning truck.
- Lawsuit claims hidden door release made escape impossible during post-crash fire.
Tesla is facing renewed scrutiny after another troubling incident involving its vehicles. As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) investigates owner reports that the company’s electric door handles can become inoperative, preventing occupants from entering or exiting the vehicle, Tesla is now being sued by the parents of two teenagers who died in a Cybertruck crash last November.
The lawsuits allege that safety issues with the electric pickup’s handles prevented the teens from escaping the vehicle.
The fatal crash occurred in the early hours of November 27 in Piedmont, California. Four teenagers were in the Tesla when it smashed into a cement wall and became wedged between it and a large tree. Moments later, the vehicle burst into flames, killing three of the four occupants, all of whom were 2023 graduates of Piedmont High School.
Expanding Legal Battle
Carl and Noelle Tsukahara, parents of 18-year-old Krysta Tsukahara, recently added Tesla to an earlier lawsuit initially filed against the estate of the 19-year-old driver, Soren Dixon, and the vehicle owner’s estate. The parents of 20-year-old Jack Nelson, another victim of the crash, have also filed a separate suit against the company.
When Power Fails
As noted by the lawsuits, the door handles of the Cybertruck operate off the 12-volt battery, and if the vehicle loses power after a crash, the electronic door mechanism will fail. The EV does have manual door releases at the front and rear, but they can be hard to find. This is especially true in the second row, where a manual release cable is hidden beneath a rubber mat at the bottom of the door pocket.
The lawsuit from the Tsukaharas asserts that their daughter survived the impact and was fully conscious. However, she was unable to escape the Tesla’s second row and died from smoke inhalation and burns. It’s claimed that Tesla has long been aware of issues with the safety of its electric door handles.
“These are not new concepts or ideas and are things vehicle designers should be taking into account,” one of the Nelson family’s attorneys told the San Francisco Chronicle. “It’s a preventable death if you have a vehicle occupant who dies who otherwise could exit a vehicle if their doors were functional, or be rescued.”
Both lawsuits seek unspecified punitive damages against Tesla. The family attorney of the Tsukaharas, believes he has a “very, very strong case,” against the electric carmaker.
“They will want to blame Mr. Dixon, anybody but themselves, but this vehicle absolutely should not have entombed these individuals and my clients’ daughter. It’s our way of holding the wrongdoer accountable, and correcting bad conduct.”