Tesla Model X with door left open slams into bus - GIF

**crotchetyoldbastard** · Oct 16, 2021, 10:00 AM

Originally Posted by hemmjo

The problem is, there are drivers, and there are riders often called passengers. Too many times these days, there is a rider or passenger occupying the space that is reserved for a driver. This is caused by the lack of real drivers.

True, but . . . you assume the seat, you assume the responsibility.

**WmRMeyers** · Oct 17, 2021, 12:42 AM

Originally Posted by Beserkleyboy

Surely you'd have thought an interlock would have been engineered into the door to disallow the engine to start, or at least a transmission lock...

There have been emergency situations where an interlock prevented the driver from escaping, and that has to favor not preventing a car from moving with the door open.

That thought and vague memories of reading about such things decades ago prompted this middle-of-the- night post.

Bill