A safety feature on a Tesla Cybertruck turned into a killer. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
You may have heard about the three college students who recently burned to death inside their crashed Cybertruck. But you may not have heard why. It wasn’t so much because of the fire.
It was because the device locked them inside.
Tesla programs its devices to do that as soon as they’re rolling faster than 5 MPH – for the sake of saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety! So when the device crashed, the doors were locked – and so they stayed, apparently because they could not be unlocked on account of them being electrically actuated.
Tesla is not the only manufacturer that does this. It’s an example – among the worst – of this intolerable (to any adult who isn’t a child) ethos of electric parenting embedded in pretty much every new vehicle. The doors lock as soon as you start driving because it’s saaaaaaafer that way. They lock again as soon as you park and get out – also for saaaaaaaaaafety.
Buckle up for saaaaaaaaaaafety! If you don’t, the car will “remind” you to do so – implying you’d forgotten to as opposed to choosing not to – until you give up and put the damned thing on. Like a good little boy or girl.
