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Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash (myelectricsparks.com)

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

Just one thing I'd like to point out, it looks like that, sure. Notice how it's missing the entire B pillar? That didn't burn off, they had to do extensive cutting.

Also this is how it looked from a side view: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/10/24/four-dead-electric-vehicle-crash-toronto/amp/

The accident was at high speed. That car is mangled. This is the press making a very big deal out of facts that aren't entirely straight (there's no way to open the doors manually! - when there is), and it's heavily reliant on the words of a 74 year old man who's feeding into this. It's definitely food for thought, but it's also a lot of hysteria. That car is hella bent, the doors probably weren't opening regardless of the door mechanisms, and yeah EVs require a different approach to fighting their fires. Fossil fuel powered cars burn too, eh? And they can be a real bitch to put out as well, people burn alive in them too.

Regardless of the arguments, it sucks that people had to die here. I think it speaks well to the safety of the vehicle though, that someone survived. I do agree on the glass, but there's a whole lot of vehicles that use that type of glass, so again Tesla takes the beating meanwhile half the manufacturers today use it. Everyone wants whisper quiet interiors, so that sound insulation has to come from somewhere.