Thread by @ClaireMusk

🚨 The #Tesla Model Y is Dangerously Defective 🚨

The latest car from Tesla has a deadly defect. If its battery dies, rear-seat passengers are trapped: there is NO MANUAL RELEASE for the rear doors.

This information is ONLY in the Emergency Responder Guide... $TSLA $TSLAQ 1/5

...and NOT in #Tesla's regular Owner's Manual, which misleadingly says to use the "manual door release", without specifying that there is NO SUCH RELEASE for a Model Y's REAR doors. Additionally, passengers unfamiliar with this defect face a higher risk of death if trapped. 2/5

This fatal defect exists in the #Tesla Model 3, which was introduced back in 2016. It has now carried over to the Model Y. Its deadliness is compounded with the 3rd row being stuffed into the back, and Musk marketing the car as seating 7 adults.
h/t @laque_tess @sbalatan 3/5

Teslas' unusual & defective doors are literal Death Traps. Real people have burned to death in #Tesla cars, trapped by the doors' defectively complex designs and reliance on electric power. The Model Y's lack of a manual release compounds this danger. 4/5

The lessons of the @Ford Pinto should have been clear. But #Tesla has chosen to value profit over safety.
Tesla is a clear and present danger to consumer and public safety.
cc: @RalphNader @NTSB @NHTSArecalls @USCPSC @FeldmanCPSC @ElliotKayeCPSC 5/5
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