• derf82@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not if you lose a key, of course. But getting locked out over a mechanical failure that happens often (a dead battery) is newsworthy. This seems to be yet another serious design flaw.

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      1 year ago

      The list of cars you can’t open anymore once the battery dies is much longer than just “Tesla”. Some may have cumbersome workarounds (I’ve e heard some only have non-electric mechanism to open the trunk). Others require you to have a physical key that you normally don’t need and isn’t part of the everyday key (so it’s probably at home somewhere in a box, and this would’ve had the same result).

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        1 year ago

        A cumbersome workaround is better than no workaround at all. I’d take a hidden backup cylinder over no cylinder at all.