In case you thought cars would become safer as technology developed… rest assured, Tesla is finding newer and ever-dumber ways to make their cars dangerous to occupants (and others).
TL;DR: If you’re in a Tesla and it loses power (like in a fire), the only way to open the doors is often an unlabeled wire behind either two panels or a speaker grill. Tesla owners are DIYing janky rip cords to make that wire easier to pull to escape.
Yeah, that’s the trick.
I found 12 people who died trapped in Teslas lately, in a casual Google search… of those, 8 were in the back seats, with those completely nutty emergency release locations. Under the carpet, right beneath the seat lip, dumb stuff like that.
That kills people, as it turns out.