I got stuck in an MG Cyberster

[swanseaboydan]

I went to have a look at a cyberster as I think it’s a great looking car and fancy owning an electric cabriolet. For me it a a bizarre toss up between the cyberster or going full v8 and getting a c63 cab then maybe going electric in a few years time.
I went to a dealer a few days ago and asked to sit in the new mg cyberster. The oSalesperson was with another customer so let me sit in it , open and close the doors etc etc until the other customer left. This I did.
When I tried to get out of the car, the door wouldn’t open as it had run out of battery. An engineer tried to open the door manually from outside but couldn’t get that to work. Fortunately the roof was down and I was able to climb out. The experience has put me off the car a bit. I am amazed there is no door handle that can be manually operated. Anyone else notice this ?
Am I being overly fussy ?
Dan

[normalbloke]

Shocking.

[Cristio Nasser]

Sounds like a funny situation, especially as there’s seemingly an obvious manual override that nobody, including the dealer knew about.

Moral of the story, RTFM!!!

[732NM]

Cristio Nasser said:

Sounds like a funny situation, especially as there’s seemingly an obvious manual override that nobody, including the dealer knew about.

Moral of the story, RTFM!!!

Moral of the story, make a basic safety feature idiot proof.

Shocking design. Should be banned from sale until made fool proof.

[Frankychops]

732NM said:

Moral of the story, make a basic safety feature idiot proof.

Shocking design. Should be banned from sale until made fool proof.

Not really possible with the amount of idiots in the world

[worldwidewebs]

Frankychops said:

732NM said:

Moral of the story, make a basic safety feature idiot proof.

Shocking design. Should be banned from sale until made fool proof.

Not really possible with the amount of idiots in the world

Too hard to just fit a mechanical door handle?

[Lincsls1]

What the fk is wrong with having a good old fashioned mechanically operated door handle! Utter stupidity.
Lets make a round wheel square.

[Downward]

Not suprised if it’s like the MG infotainment system which to turn the heater up or down or the heated seats off from Android Auto is a shambolic long process.

[ChocolateFrog]

I fking hate dealers. It's literally in the manual where the release is.

fking useless or what.

What else do sales people have to know? How to sharpen their shoes just a little bit more.

[Super Sonic]

732NM said:

Moral of the story, make a basic safety feature idiot proof.

Shocking design. Should be banned from sale until made fool proof.

Absolutely this. What a stupid place to put the opening switch. You would need to be a contortionist t to press that and push the door at the same time.
ETA contortionist!

[Evanivitch]

732NM said:

Moral of the story, make a basic safety feature idiot proof.

Shocking design. Should be banned from sale until made fool proof.

But it's a car, you're supposed to be above fool...

[Percy Cushion]

swanseaboydan said:

I went to have a look at a cyberster as I think it’s a great looking car and fancy owning an electric cabriolet. For me it a a bizarre toss up between the cyberster or going full v8 and getting a c63 cab then maybe going electric in a few years time.
Am I being overly fussy ?
Dan

Not at all. Get the full V8 c63 and you'll be totally fine, problem solved.

You're welcome.

[recordman]

How can the car meet type approval? The MOT rules stipulate that all car doors must be able to be opened from the outside and the front doors from the inside also.

[Silvanus]

EmailAddress said:

recordman said:

How can the car meet type approval? The MOT rules stipulate that all car doors must be able to be opened from the outside and the front doors from the inside also.

They are mechanically actionable from both inside and outside.

Sounds like they got inspiration from TVR

[732NM]

Evanivitch said:

But it's a car, you're supposed to be above fool...

Based on what i see on the road, i beg to differ.

[732NM]

EmailAddress said:

They are mechanically actionable from both inside and outside.

Then why could the salesman not open the door from the outside?

You arent getting the manual out as you try and exit a car in an emergency, or help someone out in said scenario.

[Evanivitch]

recordman said:

How can the car meet type approval? The MOT rules stipulate that all car doors must be able to be opened from the outside and the front doors from the inside also.

I wasn't aware the MOT isolated the 12V battery to test?

[Panamax]

What you're looking for is a Mk1 Mini,
Sliding windows.
Piece of string to open the door.
Starter button on the floor (so no relay between battery and starter).
External door hinges.
Pudding stirrer gear-stick which may or may not be connected to the transmission.

[Snow and Rocks]

Not really any worse than what Tesla somehow get away with.

Our Model Y decided to brick itself thanks to a failed invertor and lock my parents inside on a local High Street on the morning of our wedding. Thankfully after some mild panic they managed to use Google to locate where the hidden emergency release was and get out.

The problem didn't end there, the emergency release doesn't drop the windows so when they closed the doors both front windows smashed. The car then sat on the High Street for 2 days with smashed windows before Tesla bothered to recover it.

Absolutely moronic design that's unnecessarily awkward to use even when it's working. As others have said, something so critical should be obvious, well marked and not reliant on the electronics to operate.

[Frankychops]

You can clearly see that you can open from the inside, mechanically. Same as ‘super cars’ that have the same system. So it is well covered, however as before, idiots you can’t think for, the idiot being the people showing the car to others.