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0 pointsJoeAltmaier2y ago0 comments

She was in there like half an hour, eventually with divers. Time to make a phone call. Ultimately the car was flooded, the divers didn't try the doors? Finally pulled it out with the doors closed.

I'm not buying it.

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silverquiet2y ago· 2 in thread

My car locks the doors when it goes above 5 miles per hour. As I alluded to, when your car goes in the water (which does happen to people some times), you tend to drown because it's hard to escape. I don't really feel like engaging with some grand conspiracy or other about the goings on of oligarchs, but what is supposed to be the actual tampering with the car that would have caused an issue?

JoeAltmaierOP2y ago

I don't know. It's just so strange to think a conscious coherent competent person could not find a way out of that situation. In a slowly sinking car, in possession of her wits.

Maybe I'm just resisting the notion that cars are deathtraps.

silverquiet2y ago

I suspect your wits leave you extremely quickly when it happens - Adam Savage said it was incredibly unsettling to be in the car when it went in the water, and that was in a controlled situation with a rescue diver in the back seat.

They do make actual hammers for this situation that also include seat belt cutters because that can also be an issue. That said, I can’t imagine that anyone practices with one since you’d have to replace your window after. I wonder if the Tesla glass can actually stand up to one of them.

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