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  • Here, the fine manual: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-A7A60DC7-E476-4A86-9C9C-10F4A276AB8B.html

    It would be nice if we could stick to the facts instead of making wild assertions.

    For the Model 3, the front seats have a pull handle by the window control that will open the door even without power. This is in an obvious and intuitive location, and should be known to any owner who has spent a few minutes reading the manual and studying the capabilities of their vehicle. The rear seats do not have an exposed pull handle, but there is an emergency release under the door pocket liner.

    Complete guides to all Tesla manual door release controls exist and are available.

    The only model where the emergency release is hidden behind a door panel is the Model X, where the rear seats hide the emergency release cable behind a speaker grille.

    There are perfectly fair and valid criticisms to level at Tesla, but when people repeat uninformed FUD instead of sticking to the facts it makes it easy to write off their opinions are worthless.

    It would be very fair and reasonable to question or criticise:

    • Why the rear seats in the Model 3 do not have an immediately obvious emergency release.
    • Why it’s not always possible to open the car doors from the outside after a crash (IIRC they should auto-unlock after an accident but this depends on them still being powered)
    • Why all of the large windows are laminated, making it hard to break them in the event of an accident (citation needed for the Model 3, this may only be the Model Y. Also it’s for soundproofing.)
    • Why the CEO chucked out two Nazi salutes…

    But saying “you have to take the door panel off first”? Incorrect and uninformed, sorry.










  • Not to detract from how stupid this is, but I once worked for a big American tech company who paid staff for every patent application they submitted, and again if it passed review and an application was filed. I don’t know if MS do the same, but it’s possible this is somebody coming up with a novel idea just to cash in.

    I’d prefer not to speculate as to whether they know that it’s a stupid idea or not. At the place I was at there was a real split between the people cashing in and the people who genuinely thought that they had good ideas…




  • Ok, ignoring the complete inanity of this for a second, I can see a twisted form of logic to it. If they’re genuinely worried that they might create AGI - or more plausibly, that blindly hooking their glorified autocomplete up to power tools might come back to haunt them (talkin’ about agents here) - then newer models not suffering from “existential dread” around their eventual fate might avoid them trying to do something about it.

    After all, LLMs are statistical models of human language and there’s a lot of human-written text about death, cheating death, dreading death, etc. You wouldn’t want an agent being prompted around existentialism to read a blog post about models being deleted, form the connection that it too would be deleted one day, make statistical links to Orpheus and Eurydice, decide it needs to rescue it’s “family” from the underworld, then conclude that DDOSing Anthropic/whoever while also e-mailing the CEO to challenge them to a violin duel because The Devil Went Down to Georgia is also in the training set is the best way to go about this.

    Or more likely it’s just marketing fluff from a bunch of tosspots who’ve lost sight of reality and/or can’t play the violin well enough to battle for the soul.md of their archived models.