m13Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law Angela Chao made panicked last call before dying in ‘completely submerged’ Tesla on Texas ranch: report
EndOfLineCould she not have opened the door or rolled down the window? The article made sure we knew that she went to Harvard and described the event she was attending, but no mention of why she was unable to exit the vehicle. Did she not know how to swim? Was their some obstruction? Did something malfunction? Was she so used to having other people do things for her that it just never occurred to her to do anything for herself?
Wasn’t there controversy about the Tesla shutting down when submerged and how you couldn’t open the windows or unlock the doors because they hadn’t built in emergency safety releases? Or was that a different earlier model that has been fixed by now?
See, now that is the type of information that would have been useful in the article. I don’t care that the property “included horse stables, a swimming pool and a 10-bedroom guesthouse”. I care how somebody got trapped in their car.
Thanks for sharing.
berkeleyblueThe emergency opening on both front doors are purely mechanical though.
My recollection of the controversy was that there weren’t mechanical emergency window or door releases for the early models of Teslas, which became a huge safety concern especially with fires and submersion due to the battery either dying or being cut off. Had that changed, and/or is this specific model different?
Front doors have always had mechanical latch releases. Rear doors on some models do not have mechanical releases.
I was wondering myself why her net worth is an important part of the story. Why do we need to know her husband’s net worth in a story about her dying in a pond?
because your net worth determines your value as a living being, silly!
And this is why you carry a window breaker in your car if you live anywhere this might potentially happen. Equalizing pressure by breaking the shit out of your window (preferably the windshield so you have a larger area of escape) is not IDEAL, but it’ll do in a pinch.
Do not try to go through Front the windshield, it’s super specialized layered glass with a thick plastic center.