My FIL’s Corvette has the exact same style of latching. It has a manual override, but I’d challenge someone to find it without googling it, especially if it’s dark. But that cars made by Chevrolet, so we don’t do them dirty, now do we!?
Also they hit a cement barrier after bouncing off a guard rail at over 200km/hr. So I mean yeah, don’t think those doors were opening even if the latches were made of Oreo cookies. Not to make light of what’s obviously a horrible event that resulted from some shitty choices made, but there’s also pictures being used in all the press articles that show a side view of the car that’s pretty clearly being used to add to this all. It’s pretty clever framing, until you look at this car from the front and realize more than half of it is squished/missing.
It wasn’t until after I owned a Tesla that I realized just how bad this shit is when it comes to the press articles about them (ignoring the fact that gigachad Elon is currently acting like a skid). Let’s also just completely gloss over the fact that someone survived this accident (with relatively light injuries), which is sort of a miracle considering this vehicle was estimated to be travelling in excess of 200km/hr at accident beginning. Wonder what the results of a fossil fuel burning domestic car in the same situation. I mean let’s not actually find out, but just food for thought.
Just for the record, my model Y had fully functioning manual overrides on all doors, frunks, trunks and even the charging port. The back ones are actually a pretty stupid design, no denying that, but they are there.
My FIL’s Corvette has the exact same style of latching. It has a manual override, but I’d challenge someone to find it without googling it, especially if it’s dark. But that cars made by Chevrolet, so we don’t do them dirty, now do we!?
Also they hit a cement barrier after bouncing off a guard rail at over 200km/hr. So I mean yeah, don’t think those doors were opening even if the latches were made of Oreo cookies. Not to make light of what’s obviously a horrible event that resulted from some shitty choices made, but there’s also pictures being used in all the press articles that show a side view of the car that’s pretty clearly being used to add to this all. It’s pretty clever framing, until you look at this car from the front and realize more than half of it is squished/missing.
It wasn’t until after I owned a Tesla that I realized just how bad this shit is when it comes to the press articles about them (ignoring the fact that gigachad Elon is currently acting like a skid). Let’s also just completely gloss over the fact that someone survived this accident (with relatively light injuries), which is sort of a miracle considering this vehicle was estimated to be travelling in excess of 200km/hr at accident beginning. Wonder what the results of a fossil fuel burning domestic car in the same situation. I mean let’s not actually find out, but just food for thought.
Just for the record, my model Y had fully functioning manual overrides on all doors, frunks, trunks and even the charging port. The back ones are actually a pretty stupid design, no denying that, but they are there.