A Company That Tears Cars Apart to Find Out How They're Built

Re:A Company That Tears Cars Apart to Find Out How They're B... by icc97 on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:06PM (#16317590)

If you compare it to having a lever by the driver as in any other car, that's 2 seconds to do vs them having to search on the Internet / find documents in the car then find the hole then connect up a battery.

The car could be upside down or on a very steep hill. It all seems pretty frightening stuff. You're basically just praying you don't have a serious crash which is back to the 60s.

I don't think that emergency procedures should be matched to other electric vehicles they should be matched to existing ICE cars.

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Re:A Company That Tears Cars Apart to Find Out How They're B... by vsl on Thursday February 08, 2018 @02:08AM (#16330726)

What’s up with the fixation on connecting to 12V? Don’t you need to DISconnect and not the 12V,but the high voltage one?

That’s not a difficult procedure: open the hood (forcefully if need be, latch is in the front), cut the wire in the place marked in bright orange and labeled accordingly - and immediately visible and accessible upon opening the hood.

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