Chao, the billionaire former CEO of dry bulk shipping giant Foremost Group, tragically died at the age of 50 on Feb. 10 after accidentally backing her car into the pond making a three-point turn.
Wasn’t there controversy about the Tesla shutting down when submerged and how you couldn’t open the windows or unlock the doors because they hadn’t built in emergency safety releases? Or was that a different earlier model that has been fixed by now?
And this is why you carry a window breaker in your car if you live anywhere this might potentially happen. Equalizing pressure by breaking the shit out of your window (preferably the windshield so you have a larger area of escape) is not IDEAL, but it’ll do in a pinch.
See, now that is the type of information that would have been useful in the article. I don’t care that the property “included horse stables, a swimming pool and a 10-bedroom guesthouse”. I care how somebody got trapped in their car.
My recollection of the controversy was that there weren’t mechanical emergency window or door releases for the early models of Teslas, which became a huge safety concern especially with fires and submersion due to the battery either dying or being cut off. Had that changed, and/or is this specific model different?
Wasn’t there controversy about the Tesla shutting down when submerged and how you couldn’t open the windows or unlock the doors because they hadn’t built in emergency safety releases? Or was that a different earlier model that has been fixed by now?
And this is why you carry a window breaker in your car if you live anywhere this might potentially happen. Equalizing pressure by breaking the shit out of your window (preferably the windshield so you have a larger area of escape) is not IDEAL, but it’ll do in a pinch.
Do not try to go through Front the windshield, it’s super specialized layered glass with a thick plastic center.
See, now that is the type of information that would have been useful in the article. I don’t care that the property “included horse stables, a swimming pool and a 10-bedroom guesthouse”. I care how somebody got trapped in their car.
Thanks for sharing.
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because your net worth determines your value as a living being, silly!
The emergency opening on both front doors are purely mechanical though.
My recollection of the controversy was that there weren’t mechanical emergency window or door releases for the early models of Teslas, which became a huge safety concern especially with fires and submersion due to the battery either dying or being cut off. Had that changed, and/or is this specific model different?
Front doors have always had mechanical latch releases. Rear doors on some models do not have mechanical releases.