Chao, the billionaire former CEO of dry bulk shipping giant Foremost Group, tragically died at the age of 50 on Feb. 10 after accidentally backing her car into the pond making a three-point turn.
Ideally you want to break the window before the water has filled the cabin. The more time you have to get out, the more likely you are to survive. Going into deep water in the middle of winter is probably a death sentence, even if you get out, unless you’re close to somewhere you can warm up.
Ideally you roll down the window as soon as you can before the car’s electrics shut down. Then you move to break the window. Then you wait until the car is depressurized to open the door.
If you go into the water and upside down and hanging from your seatbelt, this might be extra difficult.
Maybe someone can invent a product that detects if your car has been submerged and your door unlocks and windows automatically open instantly using waterproof backup batteries. Someone would become a thousandaire.
Ideally you want to break the window before the water has filled the cabin. The more time you have to get out, the more likely you are to survive. Going into deep water in the middle of winter is probably a death sentence, even if you get out, unless you’re close to somewhere you can warm up.
Ideally you roll down the window as soon as you can before the car’s electrics shut down. Then you move to break the window. Then you wait until the car is depressurized to open the door.
If you go into the water and upside down and hanging from your seatbelt, this might be extra difficult.
Maybe someone can invent a product that detects if your car has been submerged and your door unlocks and windows automatically open instantly using waterproof backup batteries. Someone would become a thousandaire.