warning: Always use appropriate rescue tools and always wear appropriate PPE. Failure to follow these instructions can result in serious injury or death.
warning: Regardless of the disabling procedure you use, always assume that all high-voltage components are energized! Cutting, crushing, or touching high-voltage components can result in serious injury or death.
warning: After deactivation, the high-voltage circuit requires two minutes to de-energize.
warning: The restraint control module (RCM) has a backup power supply with a discharge time of approximately ten seconds. Do not touch the RCM within ten seconds of an airbag or pre-tensioner deployment.
warning: Handling a submerged vehicle without appropriate PPE for water rescue can result in serious injury or death.
warning: When fire is involved, consider the entire vehicle energized. Always wear full PPE, including an SCBA.
warning: When cutting the first-responder loop, double cut the loop to remove an entire section. This eliminates the risk of the cut wires accidentally reconnecting.
warning: When using the high-voltage shutdown methods recommended by this document, high-voltage power is isolated to the battery. The high-voltage battery is always energized.
warning: Never transport the Model 3 with rear wheels on the ground. Doing so can lead to significant damage and overheating. In rare cases extreme overheating may cause the surrounding components to ignite.
A Tesla emergency response guide for the Model 3 electric automobile. In 2016 Tesla announced that all its models would have full self-driving capabilities, with the newer models’ onboard computer containing vision-, sonar-, and radar-processing software to provide “a view of the world that a driver alone cannot access,” “seeing…on wavelengths that go far beyond the human senses.” In November 2022 Reuters calculated that the previous sixteen months had seen eighteen fatal crashes by self-driving cars, almost all of which were Tesla vehicles.
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