Al does so much work to understand the subjects of his videos that this song not only still slaps but some of the tech terms are still surprisingly relevant. Dude really respects the art form and all aspects of his parodies.

“You’re just about as useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller” is one of the sickest burns I’ve ever heard.

Even Pied Piper didn’t scale.

Sherman Tanz finally bought a president.

Not arguing that. Electronic door releases are nice but complicate things in an emergency.

I’m not defending the design or placement, just pointing out it’s there and that the driver should know what’s in their car.

And IMO, it’s on them to inform passengers.

As I’ve said with others here multiple times, I think the larger issue you’re touching on is valid, but also not exclusively a Tesla issue. Every manufacturer has a different way of invoking an emergency manual door release in recent cars, EV and ICE. Maybe that should be standardized across the board?

I agree, but considering every manufacturer decides to redesign emergency open mechanisms for their own products I feel like the bigger issue here is a lack of standardization. This is not uniquely a Tesla problem.

Some cars require you to pull the handle twice.

Some require you to do it with force.

Others have a secondary mechanism.

They’re all different.

Not going to defend the design or their way of doing things. All I pointed out in my previous comment to that effect was that the safety mechanism does exist, and ultimately it is on the driver to understand the safety features present in their vehicle.

Omg that’s so dumb. I don’t have one so wasn’t aware there were some models without. How tf is that legal

Yeah not going to defend the design just wanted to be clear it’s there and works. It’s not hard to see or feel around for but yes you need to know where it is and how to use it before it’s beneficial. Though to be fair that’s true of any feature or car.

I once had a VW that had a special way of opening the regular door latch in order to engage the emergency latch, if you didn’t know how to do it, it wouldn’t work and wouldn’t be helpful. Some make you pull the handle twice.

Maybe a larger problem is this stuff isn’t very standardized to look/work the same across all models so everyone reinvents critically important safety features.

I did not mean to suggest the victims in the article did not know what they were doing, just that you should probably get familiar with your vehicle’s safety features before driving it regularly. Of course that’s contingent on them being there and functional.

It’s possible they tried and it didn’t work apologies if it seems like I was trying to suggest that it’s their fault, I was speaking more to car owners in general than the subjects of the article.

Yep. Absolute immunity.

No that’s absolutely something valid to bring up the exterior door handles are dumb.

If you actually want to know where they are, there’s one above the window controls on the front side doors, where your hand naturally rests. You just pull it up like a regular door handle.

Backseats pull a tab in the storage area of their doors. It’s behind a little patch of fabric.

I’m guessing they either didn’t know, or in their panic didn’t think about it which is totally understandable. I just don’t think that’s as much on Tesla as the article seems to portray.

As I said in my last comment, the emergency releases are absolutely covered in Tesla’s official guides and user manuals, many YouTubers have covered this, and the front door lever is in a very easy location to find (above the window buttons, where your hand naturally rests on the door). Funny the article only mentions the rear door releases.

At some point it becomes less the manufacturer’s fault and more on the owner for not understanding the safety features in the vehicle they’re driving around.

Tesla does some stupid shit, but they still have to comply with safety regulations. I’d rather see them get bad publicity for the actual stupid shit they do, like rely 100% on regular old cameras for self-driving instead of Lidar/radar sensors or put the turn signal buttons on the steering wheel. That’s straight up unsafe and dumb.

They do. Each front door a manual lever and each rear door has a manual release pull tab.

A dumber idea would be driving around a car without knowing how it works. The article doesn’t even mention them until the last paragraph, and poorly.

The emergency releases are covered in the manual as well as official tutorial videos and countless YouTube how-tos. The front door lever is exactly where you think it is. You have to literally do zero research about the car you’re buying to not know about them.

EDIT: not sure why this touched a nerve. Every recent car model has their own way of invoking an emergency manual door release, EV or ICE. This is a new car problem, not just a Tesla problem. Simply pointing out the fact that it’s there.

All Biden needs to do is declare the 2024 election invalid on the grounds that trump as a convicted felon is not eligible to be President (because he fucking isn’t) and call it an official act.

It’ll be just as legal as anything else Trump is planning to do starting January.

Crandall office furniture!

Ordered a reconditioned Aeron there this Summer for about half what it would cost new and I love it. And since it’s reconditioned that means Herman Miller and their shitty-ass CEO didn’t make anything from me.

Only thing is it had a bit of a funky smell when unwrapping, but it aired out quickly.

If they have a point it’s because they manufactured it.

Personally I’m too stubborn to just roll over and give up. That’s what they want. Don’t give them that satisfaction.

Get involved at the local and state levels. Those are our easiest avenues to affect change going forward.

And over the next 4 years hope a halfway decent candidate that puts the people and worker protections at the top of their list of issues to run on and support the hell out of them. Or if you’re eligible, run yourself. I’d happily support an average citizen running for their peers.

Of course the one auto manufacturer refusing to give EVs a real shot because their CEO had a personal beef with Elon (fuck Elon too that’s not a defense of him in any way) would say that.

The same auto manufacturer that leads in donations to the Republican Party, too.

I really wish they’d get their shit together because their cars have such a good rep and they make really good hybrids, but fuck Toyota for this.

I don’t :/

That’s clean energy, the incoming government won’t care until he turns to oil.

“Think about how stupid the average American is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

-George Carlin