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Tesla Model X with open door slams into bus.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...614#post178183
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...089#post130102
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...158#post126125
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...127#post165075
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...526#post173930

Somebody's wallet is saying "OUCH!!!" I suspect I could populate my shop with all new machines for what that door is going to cost.

Bill

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Originally Posted by WmRMeyers

Somebody's wallet is saying "OUCH!!!" I suspect I could populate my shop with all new machines for what that door is going to cost.

Bill

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To say nothing of the "due care and attention" fine, repairs to the bus etc.

Just because you drive a Tesla doesn't mean you are smart. I'm surprised that there wasn't some kind of fail safe.

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Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko

I'm surprised that there wasn't some kind of fail safe.

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There is. It's called a driver.

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Originally Posted by crotchetyoldbastard

There is. It's called a driver.

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Shortage of smart drivers, too. I guess they figured if the car was smart the driver didn't need to be, but evidence to date indicates otherwise, I think. ;)

Bill

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Originally Posted by WmRMeyers

" . . . I guess they figured if the car was smart the driver didn't need to be, . . .

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I gave up on trusting "smart" cars when, at 65MPH on the interstate, our GPS told me to "Perform a U-turn."!! Nope . . . not quite ready for prime time. :)

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...

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Originally Posted by crotchetyoldbastard

There is. It's called a driver.

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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.

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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...

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That's a good point. Sadly, the idiot-proofing process undertaken by engineers is usually overtaken by an inexhaustible supply of ever-incapable idiots! :)

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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.

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

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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...

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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

Just remove the other door and it is now a Targa!

The word idiot immediately comes to mind.

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Originally Posted by mlochala

The word idiot immediately comes to mind.

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How very true!

Bill