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About those door handles: apparently Elon Musk likes the sleek look of retracted door handles, and that's why this problem exists. As for the people dying because of his stylistic preferences, well, they're just part of the experiment:
"The world is his lab. Everyone else is part of the experiment."
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So all survivors are left with is knowing that their loved one died because the car sped up without any warning, or its emergency brakes activated without warning, or the car crashed and its occupants burned to death because the retractable door handles wouldn't permit emergency workers to open the doors and get them out of the cars.
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Sönke Iwersen and Michael Verfürden offer a horrifying and thorough report about how impossible it has proven for survivors of people killed in Tesla car crashes to get information about why the car malfunctioned.
Tesla has extensive files. But it won't release information, apparently.
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Ah, yes, because nothing says "eternal rest" quite like being trapped in a glass cube for all eternity. 🧊⚰️ Was 1903 running low on actual ideas, or did they just have a surplus of glass? 🤔 #InnovationFail
https://hyperallergic.com/406959/preserving-the-dead-in-glass/ #InnovationFail #GlassCube #EternalRest #DesignFlaws #1903History #HackerNews #ngated