Hurricane Ian has brought stories of how a solar-powered community fared much better than most, how a Ford F-150 Lightning kept some lives in full comfort while the neighborhood was lacking electricity, and how a
summarized the rationale for this: “Have you tried to open a car door when the car is under water but only 1/3 full on the inside? It’s functionally impossible. Your best chance is either roll down/break windows and escape through them, or wait for car to fill up to the top and then open doors.” Waiting till the car fills up doesn’t sound appealing.Sounds like a good feature if implemented properly.
” This is a hard call. What if the person or people in the car are temporarily knocked out due to an accident? Waiting for confirmation to open the windows could lead to death. Having water flood on might wake up the people before it’s too late . Another tweeter pointed out that this could help in cases where the people inside are panicking and forget what to do in such situations.
Notably, it was also pointed out that the car “measures water internally not externally.” So, it’s really only going to do this when you’re getting into a very risky situation. As far as confirming all or any of this, though, I have to say that I haven’t been keen on doing a demo with my car, and most aren’t.
All of that said , Tesla is not the first to have this feature. Reportedly, Audi and Porsche vehicles have had this same capability for years. Tesla has also reportedly had it for the past decade.
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