FCKGW posted:

still not quite right.

All the Teslas have electronic door unlocks. The Model X and Model 3 have a small emergency door handle in the front integrated into the arm bar.

On the Model X rear doors, you have to remove the speaker grill and pull on a small cable. This will unlock the door but you then have to push up the falcon wing doors. These doors are motor assisted and are very difficult to open with no power.

On the Model 3, there is no way to open the rear doors without power. There is no emergency unlock method. To exit the vehicle you need to move to the front seats or, if damaged, need to escape out the trunk.



This is from their official emergency response guides:
https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/downloads/2017_Model_3_Emergency_Response_Guide_en.pdf
http://assets.teslastatic.com/2016_Model_X_Emergency_Response_Guide.pdf

Homeless Friend posted:

Ill Peripheral posted:

He also forgot that tunneling companies exist, and know how to bore tunnels better than a dude from scratch. Kind of like how he forgot car manufacturing companies existed when he started Tesla

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

i love that he gave a full accounting to the nytimes about his day before the tweet, not to disspell the fraud allegations at all but to make it clear he did not take lsd

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

In the interview, Mr. Musk said he had not had taken time off of more than a week since 2001, when he was bedridden with malaria.

imagine being a billionaire who can literally do anything you want, and you do not take a vacation for 17 years. broken brain

Azathoth posted:

A lot of CEO types have this thing where they absolutely never ever disconnect and literally do spend every waking hour either sending or responding to emails, calls, and texts. It's a control thing, where they think of themselves as so vital that they can't delegate meaningful responsibility, so I'll buy that it's true, but it's a prison of his own making.

Sir Tonk posted:

that just means hes unprecedentedly horrible at picking good managers and delegating authority.

only a loving moron would take a position like that and still want to micro-manage the entire empire. doing that is guaranteed to destory you

Coolness Averted posted:

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

In the interview, Mr. Musk said he had not had taken time off of more than a week since 2001, when he was bedridden with malaria.

imagine being a billionaire who can literally do anything you want, and you do not take a vacation for 17 years. broken brain

steinrokkan posted:

banging sex slaves on a cruise ship in the Pacific

steinrokkan posted:

Because CEOs don't really work in the normal sense, they can claim that they are technically working even when they are banging sex slaves on a cruise ship in the Pacific or whatever, as long as their phone is on so they can tell people to do actual work for them.

Shear Modulus posted:

its been a continual nonstop meltdown for like four or five months now

univbee posted:

Truga posted:

do we know yet, how much of the model S was prototyped before musk started being so personally invested in tesla? it'd explain why those seemed mostly fine, at least until recently. not saying tesla was *good* but they seemed less bad a couple years ago

Bushiz posted:

The model s was Elon's baby. It doesn't have dry cleaning hooks because Elon has never picked up his own dry cleaning. It has three weird, uncomfortable bucket seats in the back because Elon had three children in carseats at the time it was designed. What the model s didn't have was cash flow issues, production targets, or an expectation of being profitable. Every model s could wait until it was perfect before rolling out of the factory.

Truga posted:

lmao so he was taken down exclusively by his own hubris, that owns.

ilmucche posted:

Tesla is suing Ontario as well.

quote:

Tesla Motors Canada is suing the Ontario government, alleging it has suffered "substantial harm" and lost sales amid the cancellation of an electric vehicle rebate.

In mid-July, Ontario Premier Doug Ford scrapped the province's Electric and Hydrogen Vehicle Incentive Program (EHVIP), which was brought in by the previous Liberal government. The program offered rebates of up to $14,000 on qualifying vehicles, so long as they were under $75,000.

When it cancelled the EHVIP, the province promised to honour the incentive for those who have their vehicle delivered, registered and plated if it was purchased from a dealer before Sept. 10. However, the province said the incentive would end immediately for those who ordered their vehicle directly from the manufacturer.

[...]

Tesla Canada argues the government "deliberately and arbitrarily" excluded its customers, while providing no warning or the chance to offer any input.

mkultra419 posted:

If an aerospace company got caught doing 10% of what is being reported they were doing in the Gigafactory, a whole bunch of people there would be going to federal pound-you-in-the-rear end prison with million dollar fines waiting for them upon your release. The FAA does not gently caress around with falsifying test paperwork/mishandling scrap components because it will kill people. You know, like what happens when someone gets stuck in a fiery car wreck.

This is another great example of the software engineering mindset being horribly applied to actual physical engineering projects. There's not hoping it hangs together and if not we'll fix it on the test server and push out an update. At that point people's bumpers have already fallen the gently caress off.

As far as Musk spending "all" his time at Tesla, that would explain why SpaceX seems to be doing so well.

Lawman 0 posted:

He also hired actually competent people at SpaceX

ilmucche posted:

Tesla is suing Ontario as well.

gschmidl posted:

That seems fair? They're arbitrarily excluding manufacturer purchases.

the onion wizard posted:

Is there any official reason for excluding manufacturer orders?

Truga posted:

i think he's trying to take lessons from aerospace industry where everything these days is solid state and controlled by wires, for reliability.

but aviation is rigorously tested and *everything* comes in threes (so if two thirds of your systems fail catastrophically, you're still good to go) or sometimes even more and there's still problems that pop up, whereas his shitcar has a single point of failure on every step of the way and the QA was cut to meet arbitrary production goals lol

Truga posted:

it's probably the best theory, tbh. "have to be able to do everything from the ipad" "ok elon" a month later: "why the gently caress can't i control this vent with the ipad" "i didn't think.." "I SAID EVERYTHING oh, also, i want that pixel green, not blue"

Truga posted:

maybe manufacturers should look into unionising like car dealers then, i hear good unions can do wonders for you these days

i dunno if car dealers actually have an union, but it'd be extremely funny to see elon arguing for a dumbass union because he has to control the whole product chain while busting unions in his own factory

ChristsDickWorship posted:

lol that is incredibly stupid. I wonder if it's just that he likes the aesthetic, or that he thinks people are going to want to voice control aiming them in the future, or save vent presets like mirrors? Now I'm imagining a 10min "Pan right and pull back. Stop." Bladerunner scene as Musk tries to aim his vents.

Kommienzuspadt posted:

$tsla is listed at ~$322 pre-market per google, down from $335 at market close yesterday and $379 at its post-tweet peak on Weds 8/8. 7 minutes til opening bell and I'm getting a little hard already

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

tfw the biggest business news is you cried and are dumb

Kommienzuspadt posted:

I'm mostly convinced too that that interview was designed to try to pull Musk/Tesla out of a PR tailspin, and it's had only the opposite effect because anyone with half a brain knows it reads like a full on disaster unfolding

Genderfluent posted:

Yeah they probably should have left out the part about ambien