

Because it looks like candy. It feels like jelly. It’s individually wrapped in clear plastic, just like candy
Now, imagine someone leaves one of those on the counter, or in a random drawer. That’s where loose candy lives.
So of course other people, who maybe don’t do laundry and don’t often see tide pods, are going to go “oh, look, candy!”
And then they call poison control as they retch and the cells in the mouth turn to soap, and they get added to the statistics
No, the problem is they engineered something they didn’t need to, because Musk thinks everything should be electric because it’s cool. They had to then engineer a mechanical release, because it was required by law (for good reason)
Mechanical door locks would have been cheaper. The fly by wire in the cyber truck is far more expensive, heavier, and far more dangerous than the very well polished power steering systems every other car uses
Maybe it’s something like they wanted to make more money on repairs or something… But even that they could’ve done better by starting from very common, cheap technology
Let’s be clear… The real problem here is that Elon Musk, opinion having idiot that he is, made decisions from on high with very little understanding of engineering