now specifically if you have small children what I would be more worried
about instead of worrying about the pressure sensors and the trunk hatch or
the panoramic roof or even the Falcon wing doors children with small fingers
might put their finger inside the door latch itself let me show you what would
happen if you did that we're gonna use a wooden pencil that buggers in there and
yes it cranks down hard how hard see how can I get that that's not working I
can't even pull that out of there and there's no way to release it with the
door open
pencil tips still stuck in there Wow I like that pencil that is just a little
bit scary that here you can see how you know it's a standard number-two pencil
your regular everyday school pencil see what happens if I'm lower at first okay
by lowering it by lowering it then released the pencil because that men
thought the trunk was in a closed position my thought is if it knows the
trunk was then in a closed position why would it just not allow the trunk to
latch until it was already near that closed edition so if you have a child
comes over sticks their hand up up in the latch up here shoves her finger in
there that suckers gonna pinch alright now that I know it will drop the pencil
at that point now last time I tried that there's actually with a pen plastic pen
so I was able to put a little wd-40 in there and pull it through so let's try
this again all right no moorings except where it was broken
off up there so we're gonna do it down a little bit let's mark the pencil
okay mark the pencil between there as you can see there's no markings on there
I mean no dents so we're gonna put this in there that sucker clamps down
let's lower it so fixit's come on focus
and this is gonna be smaller than well it's smaller than adult finger but
something this size see that let's see if I can get to focus like there we go
focus on my hand a little better I don't have a macro lens oh I can take a
picture of it
it still doesn't want to focus yeah
I would say that is a pretty good shot for a model s trunk hatch for me
possibly even the Model X to take a child's finger off now like I said we
already know that the door you know is when it's in closed position and when
it's not so why not have the actual latch activate only after the trunk is
in a known closed position other than that now you're probably wondering well
what happens if my kid yet does get their finger stuck in there and we can't
get the door closed all the way then you will have to use the emergency release
which is up here
this is a mechanical release down this little buggers velcroing in here
and give that a nice smooth tug and that should release then it should release
what's up there Oh
crushed it more that time and there you have it back up because the car will not
release unless the trunk is near it's closed position without the manual
release be careful folks please tell your kids
not to put their fingers in machinery where they don't belong