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Wait, you need to be towed if the "frunk" doesn't close all the way???
Well if you rephrase it for a normal car it doesn't sound so absurd. "If your hood won't latch the car won't let you drive at highway speeds?"
A failed latch on a front compartment can be very dangerous because it catches the wind if it opens suddenly at 60+mph. At best you are blinded, or it gets torn off to go flying into a car behind you.
As such, highway speeds should be restricted if the latch is malfunctioning. The real problem here is that Tesla doesn't like dealers because they want that middleman money for themselves, so you often have to drive quite the distance to get it repaired. If this were a vehicle from any of the other major manufacturers most people are probably only a few miles from their nearest dealer.
Normal cars have two hood latches. Your primary latch (that you open with the hood pull in the car) and a secondary safety latch (when you reach under the hood to open it fully) so this problem is an extremely uncommon problem for a normal car.
But since this is a frunk it gets opened a lot more for storage and users would probably not be very happy about having to deal with the secondary latch on a regular basis. So they have motorized those latches for ease of use, and motorizing them adds a lot more points of failure.
That's the issue here. It's so automated that if even the slightest thing goes wrong, the vehicle goes into a mode that makes it difficult to continue, though not impossible. I wouldn't have chosen to get towed in this instance, since it still drives, but had they been on a highway, it would have been dangerous/illegal to continue at 15 mph. It feels like this was a design decision made without considering the consequences.
I've seen what happens when a hood opens at highway speed. No one was hurt, but that driver probably filled their pants, if you know what I mean.