I bought my acquaintance with a Tesler the cheapest glass breaking hammer thingy (1 monies including shipping :)).
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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Most Tesla front windows are laminated glass like a windshield, not tempered. It helps block out road noise and wind whooshing which is important in an EV since you don't have an engine rumbling to cover up those noises.
The glass breaking hammer may not be as useful as you think.
Oh, I know almost nothing about Teslas (lack of interest on my part), but you are right.
(Not sure how many Teslas use it tho.)
It seems you can buy little glass saws if your side windows are laminated.
Rescuers use power saws or these little clippers:
Make them tape it somewhere accessible in the car. If it's loose in the car, the they will never find it in time after an accident.
I'll just use it & pre-break all their windows, it's the safest option tbh.
Why the fuck not using mechanical ports?
Too mainstream
I think a classic is appropriate at this point.
ROFL
Last year 5 people in my town burned alive in a Tesla while talking with 911 operator after a crash. No media reports other than local news.
Why your name purple
Voyager dev
Oh that's so cool I'm using Voyager rn! Ty for the info
When the article (the original one) said “at least 12 people” had died trapped in Teslas, my first thought was, “At least 12 people are reported to have died, because that number sounds way too low.”
With how much media fuckery by billionaires is going on these days, I wouldn’t be surprised if many more casualties are going un- and under-reported. When rich people control media, they control people’s perception of reality. There’s so much blood on Elon Musk’s hands, it’s sickening.
ayo it's voyager
They crashed near my town!
Our local news also covered it (linked in the article). The local Reddit board definitely noticed how quiet the media was about it.
Because you're right, the 911 dispatch records are public, the dispatcher mentioned that the people inside the vehicle were yelling for assistance. They were alive and awake. They just couldn't figure out how to escape.
God, what a stupid door handle design!
You should install a separate battery system (and have it on an easy to access place for simple battery replacement - on the ceiling, for example). Also slap a battery status display on the dashboard, better keep it separate and not depend on the babby tablet. Now, what will this battery power? The emergency system, of course. I've got two words for you: Explosive bolts. That's right, you pull one of the new tiger-stripe-marked levers above each door, and all of the doors eject violently to the side, allowing you to escape a doomed vehicle in any conceivable circumstance. This is what we in the know call "cyberpunk as fuck".
Better solution is to have an explosive pin on each window. Flip the cover, and press the button and all the pins detonate, shattering each window.
You could make even tie it in to the door circuit. As long as the car has power to the door latch, pressing the button does nothing.
Here’s the truly maddening part. This isn’t some unsolvable engineering problem. Tons of other manufacturers seemed to have figured this out, and many opt for the same simple solution. In models with electric door handles… Porsche, Audi, Lexus, even the Ford Mustang Mach-E… the solution is elegantly simple: To mechanically open the non-Tesla electronic doors: Just pull the door handle harder.
I wonder if this has to do with patents somehow. I don't get why people would even care about having a car door that requires slightly less force to unlatch to begin with though, if they can't do it safely the obviously better design would be to just have it be a regular car door...
I don't get why people would even care about having a car door that requires slightly less force to unlatch to begin with...
Because it's not "slightly" less. It's completely automatic. On a Toyota Sienna, for instance, a tiny flick of the sliding door handle causes the door to open all the way electronically. A 90 year old with arthritis could do it. Meanwhile, that same handle also manually opens the door but requires a fuck ton more force.
The crazy thing, I think that the other guys are imitating Tesla.
Tesla was an early adopter of electronic latches. They open slightly smoother than a mechanical latch. That smoothness is haptic feedback that became associated with "fancy car" in the buyer's head. The Ford Mach-E and the Audi e-Tron... I think they're just imitating Tesla, only they don't do it in the stupid and dangerous way, because they're not amateurs. They're imitating Tesla while removing the obvious safety flaw in the design.
Of course, you are 100% right. It should just be a regular car door handle, if there is ANY risk of the door not functioning with the silly tiny-added-value electronic feature.