Posted on 03/21/2024 8:54:26 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
Part of why I will never own a car newer than model year 2007.
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Funny you say that but I agree... I have 4 vehicles (include an mbike) and the newest is a 2007 model. However, I actually think that 2005 is a better date to select since it was after this date that the manufacturers really started to concentrate on collecting data.
Having said that, I was at a car dealer the other night looking at a new car... must have driven the sales rep crazy as every other one of my questions was the same.... “so I can shut that off and disable it, right?” My next trip there will be to also ask.... “so if this vehicle ends up in the water, I want to know what the foolproof method is that the manufacturer has put in place to make sure I can extricate myself in a way that i might be wet, but unharmed...”
We keep window hammers available in our cars for this reason. You never know if you’ll need it.
It maybe a moot point by the sheriff. Nobody else was injured or died in the accident. Let’s say she survived and a passenger drowned, a potential DUI charge would have been the least of her worries..
What a stupid rant over a stupid incident. She was 50 years old, not a teen mom with a 3 year old child sleeping in the ranch house she was going to. She died because she was seriously inebriated, and wasn’t even in any condition to care for a 3 year old. But that’s what nanny’s are for, right? I hope you don’t have any kids if you’re as lackadaisical about your responsibilities to them as Angela Chao was that night. Who knows, this could have been a regular occurrence with her. You have no freaking clue.
Given that Tesla uses double paned glass for acoustic reasons, one of the perhaps unintended consequences is that it is even tougher to break. This stuff will never be broken underwater with a hammer... I know one thing and that is I’d like to see it demonstrated as to what device will break it.
Have a look at this link and don’t miss the comment by ‘Hoodoo Texas’ about 3/4 of the way down the page....
Your comment is too bereft of any intelligible value to comment on....
Oooh. Seems a good reason not to get a Tesla especially if you live near water.
Amongst many reasons, yes....
That's because you're not intelligent enough to understand it.
[Having said that, I was at a car dealer the other night looking at a new car... must have driven the sales rep crazy as every other one of my questions was the same.... “so I can shut that off and disable it, right?” My next trip there will be to also ask.... “so if this vehicle ends up in the water, I want to know what the foolproof method is that the manufacturer has put in place to make sure I can extricate myself in a way that i might be wet, but unharmed...”]
Perhaps if the Angela’s husband Breyer and the Chao family want to do something worthwhile with all their billions, they could put something serious together that would lobby for that..... or something even better if there is something. In my family, over the years I’ve given away tons of safety stuff... a few years ago, there were several cases of carbon monoxide deaths in hotels and so I bought them all CO detectors that would easily fit on a car keychain. If nothing else, the best car window smasher that money can buy should be in their Christmas stockings and in their cars.... if not sooner.
There were no other fatalities other than the driver. Texas authorities had to investigate. Fortunately, nobody else was inside the vehicle. I would assume the owner of the property(husband?) wouldn’t be liable for the string of events when they weren’t harmed. I guess a case could be made the people in the guest house were emotionally damaged by the events of that awful night.
Apparently the owner of the property is a trust that has the same address in Chicago as Chao’s husband’s investment firm.
The Tesla Model X’s shifting method utilizes a touchscreen interface. Swiping up selects Drive, while swiping down selects Reverse. This approach differs from the traditional PRND gear selector found on a steering column or floor console.
You might say - and she probably thought, in her final moments - this is an accident waiting to happen. This is not about being clumsy. Touch screens are finicky. It’s one thing to end up on the wrong screen or an advertising sponsor’s come-on by mistake, and quite another to end up underwater. By putting the shifter on a touchscreen, Musk has upended, for many customers, decades of muscle memory in favor of pointless novelty that requires a driver to take his eyes off road.
Thanks for the info on the car she was driving. Who in their right mind puts the important motions of drive and reverse for a car on a touchscreen? That’s an accident waiting to happen.
[Thanks for the info on the car she was driving. Who in their right mind puts the important motions of drive and reverse for a car on a touchscreen? That’s an accident waiting to happen.]
By putting the shifter on a touchscreen, Musk has upended, for many customers, decades of muscle memory in favor of pointless novelty that requires a driver to take his eyes off road.
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That’s an excellent observation and explanation... Apparently one of the friends who was visiting the ranch that weekend (perhaps the one she made the final call with) said that Chao had said she had made that ‘mistake’ before. One wonders how many others have done that as well and what the consequences have been.
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