JordanZ

To add another weird kink to this. If you don’t have power and use the emergency release…it breaks the window. Under normal operation the window needs to roll down to clear but can’t without power.

Having never owned a Tesla I searched their forum and somebody asked the relevant question. Both the interior and exterior handles are electric. So no power, no doors handles. You have to use the manual releases from inside the car.

It’s a problem when none of the doors work. The only person that survived was because somebody not involved came and broke the window. They said they didn’t even know anybody else was in the car because the smoke was so thick. Not the best time to be searching for a hidden door handle. Admittedly the front doors manual release is way more accessible but they probably didn’t know it existed because it blends into the door panel.

Child safety locks still allow the door to be opened from the outside. Tesla’s doors won’t if there isn’t any power. You have to go dig through the interior panels for the stupid cable to pull. That assumes you are uninjured, conscious, and not panicking to even do that.

The C7 Chevy corvette has a similar issue because the doors are electronic. To put insult to injury the location of the manual release is in the owners manual…which is stored behind the radio screen that power retracts into the dash. So no power and you can’t get to the manual either. Brilliant.

That made me think of this… which hasn’t happened in a good number of years.

The only place I’ve ever seen that huge Kirkland bottle is in a workplace. I don’t even have pain killers in my house right now…also American.

Valve is an odd duck because they aren’t a publicly traded company and thus not driven by the ‘line must always go up’ nonsense. They would be a company that absolutely would purge bot accounts from their queue. Steam account that’s only hours/days old? No games in the account? No wishlist either. No browse history of any game ever? Yeah, that’s a bot.

The same bots that buy everything in seconds would just fill the first 50K(or whatever) places in the back order queue. They already have to have different accounts, addresses, credit cards, etc. to avoid the per customer limits.

Admittedly that does give whatever company more time to investigate that queue for bot accounts. They could then remove suspicious accounts but that costs time/money and they have virtually no incentive to do it. Not to mention the backlash from false positives.