Geo Duarte
By Geo Duarte
Traffic Collision on Anacapa and W. Valerio Streets on Thursday evening.
Large, black GMC SUV appeared to be traveling down Anacapa St. While a large, white Tesla SUV made contact with left side of GMC. “Slightly” denting and scratching, with serious damage to the rear wheel of GMC and the Tesla.
There appeared to be no injuries. Also, no airbags apparently deployed. Interestingly the Tesla was leaking fluids. What could that be? IDK.
It seems that “upgrading” Anacapa to one lane isn’t really helping with this completely unavoidable accidents. The Tesla, it appears, was trying to race across Anacapa, but was either distracted or didn’t “hit the gas” fast enough to avoid the rushing monster-sized SUV. I never feel safe inside Teslas even though they receive high marks for safety. Nothing like getting t-boned by a hunk of American metal. I may be old-fashioned, but I like the idea of staying alive when I’m in a vehicle….and THAT never goes out of style.
Tesla Model X is the first and possibly only SUV to receive a perfect five star safety rating, better than pretty much any ICE SUV, so your fear, as usual, is not based in fact.
And of course, Tesla’s are built in the US, so they are in fact hunks of American metal.
Yup, when the power goes out the doors wont open! Scarry!
Don’t let facts get in the way of social media rhetoric.
THETEK–
I guess you don’t know but that is completely false. There are both an electronic release operated by a button and a MANUAL CABLE release operated by a small handle right in front of the window switches.
So, no, if the car is completely dead you are not trapped, you can open the doors, just like any other car.
Jeeezus.
BABYCAKES, why do you feel the need to make up fake facts? You have no idea if or how the accident rates on Anacapa have changed. Why not just say nothing?
On the Model Y, the door systems are operated off the 12-volt battery system, rather than the main propulsion battery system. There is a port with a 12-volt connector for powering them externally from a 12-volt battery, if necessary. Not like the passengers can do that, though.
It’s not completely false for some Teslas, unfortunately. On my 2021 Model Y, the rear passenger doors have no cable release. Other Model Y years have a cable release, but it’s buried under the baseplate of the rear door pockets. I don’t know how Tesla got that past the safety regulators.
ALEXB—
Currently not all Teslas are the same. There are reportedly, as per Tesla Owners, on this comment page, different issues, advantages, challenges and limitations for each year and model. I am quickly learining though, and that’s what really matters. I just know when those old batteries catch fire, better bring a jack-hammer those windows don’t break quickly or easily. Jeezushhh.
As per…5510, 9:25 PM the lovely “butterfly” doors or whatever…. “On my 2021 Model [Tesla} “Y” the rear passenger doors have no cable release. Other Model Y years have a cable release, but it’s buried under the baseplate of the rear door pockets.”
Nothing is ever perfect, Teslas are awesome. Wish I could afford the latest and safest. LoL Give every driver a mechanical handle, a cord, or an emergency escape that blows the doors open when at zero miles per hour.
Yes, plus Anacapa St, and others are excellent “unestricted routes’ for emergency vehicles to quickly travel and assist the most common calls,
Bad drivers will always be the main problem. Often, repetatively, IMPAIRED DRIVERS. [???]
I own a Model Y. There is a manual cable release literally at my fingertips. I don’t need to power anything to open the door.
Back in the 80s and early 90s, Anacapa Street was referred to by many locals as the “Shooting Gallery” due to the high number of accidents involving vehicles getting blasted when crossing over this street. At one time in the not-too-distant past, the corner of Anacapa and Carrillo (the one with two Rs) had the highest number of accidents in the State of Cali for a city of our size (or something like that). When a smallish/light vehicle such as a Tesla crosses in front of a Big Ol’ Monster-Sized SUV, the toy is going to lose each…. and…. every…..time (see photos and vid for proof of this….no made-up facts as suggested). Believing that a “perfect five-star rating” is going to protect you from Newton’s Second Law is laughable….not the ha-ha-ha laughable, but the ha-ha-ha ridiculous kind of laughable. It’s like in the old John Wayne movie where the heroine is freaking out about rattle snake biting her in the middle of the night, and The Duke puts a rope on the ground around her and says that snakes won’t cross ropes, so she’s safe. Tesla owners are quite safe as they are forced to sit and sit and wait in their cars whilst getting charged up (for giggles, go to 5 Points next to Big 5 and check out all the Teslas lined up like bees at the hive to get their fix of juice….drivers typically have their heads buried in their electronic devices….what a way to spend your day).
Anyways, be safe out there people and look both ways TWICE before proceeding across intersections, driveways, and so on. If you’re not looking out for yourself, don’t expect others to do that for you.
That’s always true for the front doors, but depending on the year, that may or may not be true. The rear doors of our Y have no manual release. It’s even pointed out in the Owner’s Manual.
In the years that had a cable release for the rear doors, one has to access it by removing the contents of the door storage pocket and then lifting a flap on the bottom to find the toggle pull. Ridiculous.
BABYCAKES, do you ever have any information to back up your statements?
“Smallish light vehicle” like a Tesla.
LMAO. The Tesla Model X is over six thousand pounds. For tax purposes it literally qualifies as a truck by weight.
Sounds like you just have an irrational hatred for Tesla owners.
I think that all Teslas have a manual release for the front doors–my point is that anyone claiming that you can’t exit a Tesla if there is no power is wrong. Rear passengers would have to go out the front doors–I agree that’s not ideal.
Similar to non Teslas having child locks on rear doors which won’t open if there is no power–
The batteries on Teslas have a circulated coolant fluid in sealed conduits.
Do tesla’s have brake fluid too?
Not to mention windshield wiper fluid.
SO much misinformation about Tesla’s in this thread.
Out of the 100 MOST ‘American made’ cars, the top 4 spots go to Tesla, all 4 models, S, 3, X, Y. All are made in either Fremont, CA or Austin, TX). Following Tesla is VW, Honda and other ‘foreign’ brands. No “American” car cracked the top 15.
https://www.cars.com/articles/2023-cars-com-american-made-index-which-cars-are-the-most-american-467465/
Actually, the current winner of safest car ever tested to date is the 2023 Tesla Model Y. “Tesla Model Y wins 2023 safety award with “near-perfect safety rating”.