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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Most likely with an impact that severe, the passengers were either killed or incapacitated on impact, especially giving the fact none of the others were noticed trying to escape when the bystander broke out a window.

    The front doors do have easily accessible manual releases on all of the models.

    That being said, for the ones ‘equipped’ with the emergency feature for the rear, it is a manual release cable buried under the speaker grill, which is something very few passengers would know about in the first place, much less have the presence of mind or physical capability to remove the speaker grill and find/pull the cable.


  • Seems someone doesn’t understand how OAuth works. It does not automatically give full access to your social media accounts, location history, and device cameras as the video says.

    Using the Google button for instance will tell you exactly what permissions are being requested every time you login. Generally, it will be name, email, language, and sometimes profile picture. Aside from the profile picture you would give all the same information anyway to create an account. At least with OAuth there is no worry about passwords, especially for people who don’t have good password practices and reuse passwords between different sites.



  • This seems to stem from a report where they found if one specific pin on one IC in the inverter dropped below 2V it could cause the pedal position to be read as high during that time. The claim is that the 12V rail for the vehicle could drop to 2V and trigger the issue. I don’t see how this could happen without basically the entire car either shutting down, the brief power dropout being recorded in one of many modules that log voltage, or at the very worse case the erroneous input only lasting the duration of the voltage drop. None of which would cause the claimed unintended acceleration.

    The article links to a Twitter thread on this which goes into more details of those points. It is certainly good to be looking for any possible cause but this seems quite contrived. A proof of concept demonstration on an actual vehicle would be much more telling.