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  • Physically impossible to open the door in a fashion it was meant to be. Airplane doors are designed to open inwards. The air pressure inside the plane pushed the door into place evenly over the entire surface. Given an approximate pressure differential of 8psi spread across a minimum 24x48" airplane for would be 10,752 pounds of force that would need to be overcome to open the door. There is no way to apply that kind of force from inside the plane that wouldn’t catastrophically damage the door prior to opening. You can’t just pull the handle that hard without it breaking. There’d be nothing to grab that would pull out in without failure.

    So maybe you could rig up a machine to break a portion of the door and create a hole. But the door would in no way be intact or functional afterwards.


  • They must have had a way to get in the first time, for instance.

    Not necessarily. There are lots of comparisons to submarines but it’s more comparable to airplanes. Part of the security on a plane is that it is physically impossible to open the door while the plane is flying. The pressure difference between the pressurized inside and thin air outside would require superhuman force to open.

    In a similar vein, when the ISS was constructed it wasn’t initially pressurized. This would make opening the door from the outside trivial from a pressurization standpoint. As long as the only means to pressurize it could be triggered from inside, there’d be no way it would be pressurized without someone inside.







  • So your original comment is false technically. You said they are the worst “per accident”. The study you linked only looked at accidents with at least 1 fatality. That would ignore any accidents that might have resulted in a fatality, but due to the safety of the car, there were only injuries with no death. Granted that applies to the other cars as well, but at least something to note.

    Also there’s this quote from the article that contradicts your assertion.

    “Most of these vehicles received excellent safety ratings, performing well in crash tests at the IIHS and NHTSA, so it’s not a vehicle design issue,”

    The design of Tesla’s should not take a hit like this because the drivers suck.