Example in pop culture https://youtu.be/e66SLE1Cbcs?t=84

I mean, imagine you ignore the warning, drive on a highway and the hood pops up on you out of nowhere. Just because you couldn’t get it to open doesn’t mean it won’t unjam itself at highway speeds once air gets under it and turns it into a sail. Either blinding you entirely, or ripping off the hinges, flying off and hitting someone else’s windshield - blinding them, or even killing (imagine a motorcycle getting hit by it). I think the hate isn’t justified, maybe other than the fact that they weren’t able to fix it themselves. This sensor should be standard issue on all cars, since this absolutely is an issue with safety.

Airbag deploying means the car is totalled usually. It is a catastrophic safety feature that damages everything around. First, you have the airbags out, which interferes with driving. So you’d need to cut them out before continuing. Second, airbags don’t usually pop out of nowhere. 95% of the time, the damage is severe enough that the vehicle shouldn’t drive anymore before major fixes are done. Seatbelts are gone too, since they locked up during the crash and they are stretched / strained enough to not be usable anymore. Third, airbags explode when they are activated, which disorients you as the passenger, makes it hard to see what’s going on. Fourth, many cars automatically disconnect the fuel pump, battery cables to prevent adding more fuel / sparks to a crash already.

Honestly, airbags popping aren’t a “non issue” like you try to make it seem. Call a tow truck.

Yes, and for a reasonably good reason.

If the rear trunk lid of a car doesn’t latch shut, the wind will blow it back down. It might obscure the view from the rear window but the side mirrors should still allow rear view, so it’s not a serious safety hazard. If the hood, or frunk lid, doesn’t latch shut, wind might get under it and blow it open, completely obscuring forward vision. This is why, on most cars, the hood is secured with not one but two latches, and the “second” one that can hold it partially closed is just a lever with a big spring that holds a pawl over a pin. Simple doesn’t fail.

This worked fine for decades, because the engine compartment has always been a kind of “back stage” area. Less care for how the trunk latch felt and sounded was put into the design because you’d only open it to service the engine. But now electric cars don’t have engines there, so that volume of the vehicle gets re-used as a cargo compartment, and thus requires a latching system that the chai latte-est pair of yoga pants is willing to operate. So it has to be motorized with a motorized latch. And because adding that much electrical shit to the system means chance of failure skyrockets, you also need an interlock that can stop the car from driving with the hood unlatched so it doesn’t blow open on the highway.

Being made by Tesla also means the chance of failure skyrockets again.

It’s like this vehicle really hates being a truck. Really? A governor on an electric vehicle when the “frunk” is open. Well I guess that’s another weakness to this seemingly unstoppable “beast”. Rest hay on the little vents for the air suspension located in the bed because there’s no air filter, open the frunk and let it break itself, and for good measure, put a fence in front of it so it punctures the cooling system when it collides into it.

Imagine if you’re handy yourself, and you decide to either strap it down or make a latch of some sort, and it’s fixed in place. Or even just replace the latch, but it’s the sensor that’s faulty. But you can’t drive it anymore. Instead you have to take it to the dealership and pay out the wazoo to get it fixed.

Yes safety standards are important. People are dumb and would ignore a warning. However, you should be able to disable the speed limiter.

Edit: also you’re acting like you’re refusing my point, but that’s not what I’m saying. You can feel upset about overbearing safety systems and still appreciate safety. It’s like saying “man, that’s a real mean dog” and someone coming back at me saying “Excuse me, dogs are great animals. Do you think the blind shouldnt be able to have eye seeing dogs??”

Imagine you think you are handy and it flies off and hits someone or kills them, or blind you.

If you are handy, you can replace the sensor too. It’s not a good argument to “the latch is broken and someone wants to drive it anyway”. You can fix both. Also you can drive it at 15 mph. This absolutely is a huge safety issue that requires a fix, there is no room for negotiations and “maybe I do this instead, hmm???” - either fix it or deal with it going slow.

A latch is like two bolts and 20 minutes. A sensor is about 4 hours of trying to figure out why the fuck it isn’t working just to figure out that you need to also replace the fuses and a relay thats for some reason behind the console.

I’m at a lost for words over how extremist you’re being at the moment. The frunk isn’t going to fly off, it may fly up and shatter the windshield, but it won’t fly off. I’m not even entirely sure it would fly up with it being entirely stainless steel.

And even if it does, it would probably be the least dangerous thing on the road. If you want to be extremist, every car should have a breathalyzer, eye sensors to make sure you’re not on your phone or falling asleep, and you should have to renew your license with a driven test every other year.

In fact, cars shoudnt even exist. At any point, someone could drive into a crowd and there’s no limitors to prevent that.

Great slippery slope, going to fallacies and trying to excuse a very dangerous thing on the road.

It is extremely dangerous to drive with an unlatched hood / frunk. End of story. No amount of negotiation from your side changes that. The sensor absolutely has its place and you have to look for edgecases where it still doesn’t make sense to not have the sensor.

Musk has largely given up on the tesla brand, he moved onto AI dont expect any improvements.