That’s why you pull the manual release. It’s not hard. On both front doors. I’ve had my passengers pull them accidentally.
I suppose they could be labelled better but (shrug). My family all knows where they are.
I read not all Tesla come with that feature. Most like the one these people burned up in.
From the article a model Y. Same as mine, definitely has them. Maybe they just don’t know where they were. Hard to access in the back but super easy in the front.
Because this keeps coming up:
Electronic door latches are not a Tesla invention. They are featured in many vehicles. They’re considered a luxury item and presumably some people like them over a mechanical latch.
All Teslas have a mechanical override. In the 3 and Y it’s very obvious in the front seat (so obvious that some of my passengers instinctively use it over the electronic latch. Doing so repeatedly can damage the weather stripping). The back seat has no override (that I know of).
It’s less obvious (but still present) in the S and X.
Take from that what you will, but this is only a story because it’s Tesla.
It just comes up because everyone that shorted Tesla stock hoping for a big payday just got their asses handed to them and their money taken away.
Lol.
How does this shit pass safety tests? Did they pay off the testing authorities?
That’s four fewer witnesses, win - win. If a Tesla horribly fails in the woods and nobody’s left to report it, did it really fail? The answer is no, keep giving Musk your money.
