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Jimmy2016 · 61-69, M
🤔...........There are manual door releases in the vehicles.........
swirlie · F
@Jimmy2016
The manual door release in a Tesla is not labeled as such. In fact, there is no label on it at all that says that it is the manual door release handle.
The normal way to open a Tesla door is to press the electronic door release switch on the interior door-closing hand grip which is a lighted icon which requires power from the main battery to function. Press the lighted icon and the door unlatches and you push it open and exit the vehicle.
If you are unconscious in the vehicle after the doors have been automatically locked by a damaged battery during a collision however, nobody can get you out of the vehicle without breaking a window, reaching in and pulling up that manual release handle.
Breaking the glass without the use of a solid object is very difficult to do because of the safety glass that is used in side windows and windshields of Teslas. Once the glass of a side window is broken however, it is not evident where that manual door release handle is located unless you were familiar with the vehicle itself.
The manual door release in a Tesla is not labeled as such. In fact, there is no label on it at all that says that it is the manual door release handle.
The normal way to open a Tesla door is to press the electronic door release switch on the interior door-closing hand grip which is a lighted icon which requires power from the main battery to function. Press the lighted icon and the door unlatches and you push it open and exit the vehicle.
If you are unconscious in the vehicle after the doors have been automatically locked by a damaged battery during a collision however, nobody can get you out of the vehicle without breaking a window, reaching in and pulling up that manual release handle.
Breaking the glass without the use of a solid object is very difficult to do because of the safety glass that is used in side windows and windshields of Teslas. Once the glass of a side window is broken however, it is not evident where that manual door release handle is located unless you were familiar with the vehicle itself.
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AfternoonWine · M
@swirlie Have you a photo of where the manual door release is? It would be handy to know.
swirlie · F
@AfternoonWine
Here is an interior image of the driver's door. The top circle is the electronic button door release which requires battery power to operate.
The lower circle is where the manual door release handle is located which is used in the event of a total battery power loss.
Here is an interior image of the driver's door. The top circle is the electronic button door release which requires battery power to operate.
The lower circle is where the manual door release handle is located which is used in the event of a total battery power loss.
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swirlie · F
@AfternoonWine
I felt the same way when I discovered this last week following a Tesla auto collision in Toronto. Four people were in a Tesla on a stretch of road within the city when the driver lost control at low speed, hit a guard rail head-on and the car instantly burst into flames. Why did it do that? Because the main battery was damaged, then shorted-circuited and caught fire which apparently has happened many times in the past few years with lawsuits pending in the USA.
The only person around was a FedEx delivery guy who was right behind the Tesla, but quickly realized the car's doors couldn't be opened from the outside because they were locked... and the doors couldn't be opened electrically from the inside because the battery isolated itself an then auto-disconnected itself from the system when it detected a short-circuit was happening which of course caused the fire.
The FedEx driver couldn't break into the car because any hard object he had in his truck wouldn't break a side window, so his only hope was to tell the occupant at the passenger door to pull on the door handle, which she did though not knowing where the manual door release latch was actually located because it isn't typically used if the electric system is working.
As she released her door latch after finding it in the smoke-filled environment, the car became completely engulfed in flames as the FedEx driver pulled her out of the car, but he was unable to get the others out because they couldn't find the manual door release latch to open their respective doors.
I felt the same way when I discovered this last week following a Tesla auto collision in Toronto. Four people were in a Tesla on a stretch of road within the city when the driver lost control at low speed, hit a guard rail head-on and the car instantly burst into flames. Why did it do that? Because the main battery was damaged, then shorted-circuited and caught fire which apparently has happened many times in the past few years with lawsuits pending in the USA.
The only person around was a FedEx delivery guy who was right behind the Tesla, but quickly realized the car's doors couldn't be opened from the outside because they were locked... and the doors couldn't be opened electrically from the inside because the battery isolated itself an then auto-disconnected itself from the system when it detected a short-circuit was happening which of course caused the fire.
The FedEx driver couldn't break into the car because any hard object he had in his truck wouldn't break a side window, so his only hope was to tell the occupant at the passenger door to pull on the door handle, which she did though not knowing where the manual door release latch was actually located because it isn't typically used if the electric system is working.
As she released her door latch after finding it in the smoke-filled environment, the car became completely engulfed in flames as the FedEx driver pulled her out of the car, but he was unable to get the others out because they couldn't find the manual door release latch to open their respective doors.