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My favorite one is this.

I think there was only one that suggests pressing the lock door button. But apparently that’s not a universal feature because most of the suggestions tell him to press a button on the touch screen console

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[–] 66 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

I saw a tiktok of a woman who was locked in her Tesla while it was updating for over half an hour. The car had an internal temp of 38 celcius (idk, something like 100+ farhenheit) aircon off due to update and the doors wouldn't open until it finished. Bazingas Dies In Hot Cars.

Edit: oh and she ended the tiktok with 'and my chik fil a has been ready for thirty minutes'

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    She wasn't "locked" in her car. She had every opportunity to use the door's emergency release to exit the car, but she chose not to because she was afraid of the possibility of damaging the car (and so that she could film a TikTok.)

    It is however a design error that the car doesn't require all occupants to exit the vehicle before starting the update.

    https://jalopnik.com/a-tiktoker-got-trapped-inside-her-115-degree-tesla-mode-1851404777

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It shouldn't even force people to go outside, the entire door/locking firmware should be running on a separate microcontroller and entirely independant from the state of the main computer. An actual firmware update of a microcontroller takes a 1-2 minutes at most and should be done when the user is least likely to use the car (e.g. midnight). This is such absolute garbage engineering it is unbelievable.

    Imagine your baby is in the car and you are trapped outside in Arizona summer because the car's operating system just shit the bed. I am an engineer and and I always design for the absolute worst case scenario within the system's paremeters. This takes time and money and it makes me furious that these SV companies just pump out crap that can and will affect real people beyond a buggy app. This isn't a fucking party planner app update.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I am an engineer and and I always design for the absolute worst case scenario within the system's paremeters. This takes time and money and it makes me furious that these SV companies just pump out crap that can and will affect real people beyond a buggy app.

    Which also leads people to distrust technologies that could otherwise be pretty good and useful.

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