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If your window toggle is shorted out on the driver side, then so is the passenger side. You're supposed to keep a spring loaded center punch in your glovebox.
Can you hold your breath for the amount of time it takes you to dig through your glovebox to find your car registration and insurance? Now try doing that while panicking and the water is rushing in. Most people die in these situations.
They should require the gear shifter have a button to pull out, and it have a hard sharp end that can break glass with little effort.

Ban power windows! Manual crank windows are safer and never break. I would never buy a car with power windows if manual crank windows are available.

Booger says

Ban power windows! Manual crank windows are safer and never break. I would never buy a car with power windows if manual crank windows are available.

Agreed. And they are completely useless

mell says

Booger says

Ban power windows! Manual crank windows are safer and never break. I would never buy a car with power windows if manual crank windows are available.

Agreed. And they are completely useless

Eh. Don't drive in a place you can get swamped in or drive through high water. Not that complicated. I've driven in the Smokies (just got washed out), Rockies and Sierras. Check the weather and make an intelligent decision. If a road is flooded turn around. Take a nap. Nothing is that important in life.

Also most power windows are fine. Oh and don't drive into lakes or ponds as well. My windows work just fine in a downpour. Don't drive through washouts either. Life is pretty simple. Some want to make it complicated.

Booger says

Ban power windows! Manual crank windows are safer and never break.

Porque no los dos?

I'd be happy to have both options, as long as a shorted power window could be forced down with the crank.

Patrick says

Booger says

Ban power windows! Manual crank windows are safer and never break.

Porque no los dos?

I'd be happy to have both options, as long as a shorted power window could be forced down with the crank.

Still confused how someone gets underwater in a car? That's level 10 retardation and I don't think breaking a window from a retard is going to work. Stay home if it looks like flash floods.

No worries. My insurance covers reincarnation.

The good news is that an EV will boil you to death before you drown. I hate the thought of drowning.

WookieMan says

Patrick says

Booger says

Ban power windows! Manual crank windows are safer and never break.

Porque no los dos?

I'd be happy to have both options, as long as a shorted power window could be forced down with the crank.

Still confused how someone gets underwater in a car? That's level 10 retardation and I don't think breaking a window from a retard is going to work. Stay home if it looks like flash floods.

People are really really dumb. There’s a part of San Fernando Road in Sun Valley(suburb in name only in the city of Los Angeles) that goes under a railroad bridge that heavily floods each year, many times to a depth greater than the height of most cars. It’s super obvious and easy to avoid. There’s an island dividing the road so sometimes if you don’t see the flooding you wind up having to back up in order to make a uturn.

Every fucking year there’s multiple assholes that try to drive through and get completely submerged. I actually saw one guy drive to the point of water being at window level. I didn’t stick around to see what happened. Idiot honked at me for backing up and no way I’m risking my life to prevent evolutions course(and I’ve assisted in multiple life threatening accident situations in my life).

Of course you are dealing with Los Angeles, a city full of mentally ill people, people who can’t speak English, and people who hve just plain given up on life. You have people that can’t function without GPS, people who can’t read a map, people who can’t figure out how to get anywhere without landmarks. I tried to give someone directions by “go left on Sepulveda and the right on Victory and then go past Van Nuys and Hazeltine and turn right on Woodman” and had to change it to “turn left and go past the Target, go right where you see the Jack In The Box, go past the civic center and about a mile more then turn left at the other Jack In The Box”.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

“turn left and go past the Target, go right where you see the Jack In The Box, go past the civic center and about a mile more then turn left at the other Jack In The Box”.

You have to light up their soylent green addiction to activate the dormant flouridated cortical centers. Force majeure vs. force minor.

ohomen171 says

"How To Escape From Your Car When It Sinks Into Flood Waters"

Good safety topic @ohomen171

And it is not just Flood Waters because a car might fall into a river or a lake for a million different
reasons. This is something that needs attention and preparation.

WookieMan says

Still confused how someone gets underwater in a car? That's level 10 retardation

There are a lot of really stupid people out there

Please note that my car is equipped with a very special tool to cut my seat belt, should it become stuck and smash the window. The seat belt cutter works and the window smasher is not strong enough to smash a side window.

Ceffer says

No worries. My insurance covers reincarnation.

Again?

HeadSet says

Ceffer says

No worries. My insurance covers reincarnation.

Again?

I'm a little lumpy and my soul is diluted a bit, but if it works for Biden, it works for me.

ohomen171 says

Please note that my car is equipped with a very special tool to cut my seat belt, should it become stuck and smash the window. The seat belt cutter works and the window smasher is not strong enough to smash a side window.

Ohomenbot 2.0 is interactive! Probably augmented by ChatGPT 4.

Elena would say, you need to buy tools to test on your windows - what's $500 per window to ensure that you can break it and save Elena's life?