Trapped Inside a Tesla: Fatal Crash Sparks Lawsuit Over Door Design

I can’t imagine driving a Tesla around. Unless you’re aligned with extremists and far right ideology, buying a Tesla means your money supports and empowers a figure whose public actions actively undermine your values. Then again, most people put their morality to the side if it presents them with some sort of inconvenience. Let’s pretend for a second that you have no moral compass and don’t care who you support politically and how you’re viewed. Beyond that, despite the premium price tag, Teslas are notorious for inconsistent build quality; including issues like misaligned body panels, poor paint finish, and interior rattles. Furthermore, the after-sales service is slow, uncommunicative, and inadequate in its ability to handle the sheer volume of vehicles on the road. Then you add in the deception and snake oil sales; Tesla is facing extensive investigations and lawsuits over exaggerating the capabilities and safety of its driver-assistance systems, branded as "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving" (FSD). This is deceptive marketing that risks lives on public roads, and there are numerous documented cases of safety incidents tied to these systems. The cars have an over reliance on technology while having a lack of basic features. The touchscreen creates a single point of failure with basic functions often hidden behind multiple menus, then you have the most brutal safety criticism of them all; the door handles. Loss of power is a critical failure point in an accident. Most Teslas use electronic door handles and when a major accident occurs, the low voltage system fails and the doors become inoperative trapping people inside. While there is a manual “solution,” it’s inadequate and dangerous. The small mechanical lever by the window switches or the rear seat cables or levers are often hidden and can be hard to find with smoke or panic setting in. Worse so for the elderly or children. You have to lift a carpet / mat in the door pocket to release the cable. Tesla used to be the only game on the block but now the competition has largely caught up. BYD is outselling Tesla globally already. Even though the Chinese models will not be available to those in the U.S., you can still buy an affordable EV with much better build quality, broader selection of body styles, equivalent or superior range and charging speed (800V Kia and Hyundais charge fast af!)… The reasons are numerous. The one advantage Tesla still has that will likely be eroded with time is the supercharger network. That’s it imo. Full self driving is a pipe dream that won’t ever come to fruition unless Elon makes a 180 and decides to embrace LIDAR and multi-sensor suites. Tesla will someday go the way of Nokia, MySpace, IBM; they were all market leaders at one time and industry champions that revolutionized the world. Now? Not so much. Don’t even get me started on the Government subsides, without which Tesla would have failed and wouldn’t exist. Elon should really thank Obama for that!

I bet they did not see this happening when they bought it

Why people buy tesla cars after all these news

I have a friend who works for the federal government. He used to work remotely five days a week, then DOGE came in and made everyone RTO full time, giving him an hour commute each way. His solution? Sell his gas powered car and buy a Tesla. SMH...

Can you add some paragraphs. Damn

To be fair, no one that has died in a car fire, in the history of car fires, saw it happening when they bought the car.

Crazy doesn't think in paragraphs.

At the same time though it's the best car I've ever owned tenfold, or maybe even more. My car didn't come with a full self-driving computer so I've never even tried it, and I can't figure out why anyone would want it, when the best thing about the car is driving it. So I can't speak on that point, but by every single metric it's better and there's not one way it's worse for me. I might switch to another electric at some point in my life but I will never go back to ice it's so inferior. And I bought it used so I've given Elon no money and in fact he pays for my unlimited data connection because for some reason my vin gets free internet for life. No regrets from this happy customer.