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What's happening at BMW as far as EV's are concerned is not good.
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This Tesla crash and fire happened about a week ago, I thought about posting the story of yet another vehicle fire that was very challenging to extinguish but I thought I'd put it on the back burner. Then this story comes out that the deceased was unable to get out of the vehicle as reported due to the electronic locks/doors. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...a9a9927d5.html
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11-11-2024, 11:25 AM | #9595 |
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I'm just listening to to talk radio and this comes on for discussion:
"State Farm, the largest auto and home insurance company in the U.S., has removed all electric vehicle (EV) chargers from its parking garages, citing concerns over fire risks. The decision, announced in late October and effective almost immediately after that, affects chargers at the company’s head office in Bloomington, Illinois; and at its hub locations across the country." https://driving.ca/auto-news/driver-...20fire%20risks. |
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Yes mine has mechanical normal doors as far as I know. It's not full on electronic actuators.
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I know that many of you would choose a fiery death in a Tesla. But, here is the admittedly brutal and difficult manual release video that would save some of you.
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Seriously, you expect someone in the rear seat after a crash and the cabin is beginning to fill with toxic smoke, in a panic, to reach the Rubic's Cube manual door release? Lol. Sorry, but that is an utterly stupid and non-fail-safe design. Why can't EVs just have normal, cable operated, door pulls, both interior and exterior?
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Again, I think the fact that the young woman died in a terrible way speaks to the fears a great many would suffer. The electronic door mechanism just seems like an unnecessary complication to solve a problem that doesn't exist. In the event of an emergency muscle memory is the default, having to search for a hidden or secondary release makes no sense.
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All because Tesla decided that cool EV cars need electrically assisted flat-surface door handles. Ford one-ups Tesla with its Mach E and has just a push button door handle. Idiot design. It's one of the reasons I did not buy a Mach E when I looked at them in September last year. When I asked the sales lady how one gets in the car if the battery fails, she had no answer. She went inside to learn and provided the answer. Much the same as Tesla, 12V needs to be applied to leads hidden in the front bumper to unlock the frunk to gain access to the 12V battery via removal of a few trim covers inside the frunk. Then jump the 12V battery terminals, which powers the electrically opened doors. Utterly ridiculous. Clown engineering. Some things just don't need to be improved upon. Cable operated door handles are one such thing.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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People die in terrible ways all the time. If you live in fear of all of them, regardless of the actual chances of dying from that, then that’s your choice.
Didn’t some famous person recently die from falling off a balcony. Do I now have to live in fear of balconies? What about that hockey player that got his throat sliced? Guess ice skating is out also. Electronic door latches are not limited to EVs. My C7 had electronic doors and as far as I know the manual override was in the freaking hatch. Talk about a death trap. |
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