So now Tesla can't sell any cars in China. Take note investors.
Also, Chinese car makers like Jaecoo, who have also been using hidden car door latches, launched practical copies of models with normal car door latches in 2025.
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"AH IT'S SO HOT, I'M BURNING ALIVE! OH GOD MAKE IT STOP!!! Still love my Tesla though."
I got uber once, and tesla arrived. I was unable to enter this piece of death machine.
So now imagine that you want to help people locked in burning tesla, but you have no idea how to open freaking door. Tesla is protecting the world from some kind of people.
Safety policies are written in blood. Or in this case, ashes.
Same with me but I got in ok and then couldn't get out at the end of the ride. It was dark and I couldn't find the door handle. More genius ideas from pedo elon, changing standard design to make it worse for no fucking reason.
So when Tesla goes bankrupt and all these people own cars locked down by software, unable to service them, I guess they just turn into giant paper weights?
People are already hacking/jailbreaking Teslas, but that definitely not for everyone
We've all become desensitized automotive death. They're like children dying in schools. *scroll* *scroll* next story. next dopamine hit.
Heh-heh, now China is just fucking with Tesla.
Tesla will be bankrupt in 2 years.
You forget the part about a US government bailout. When your company earns money, you're a business genius and you get to cash out. When it looses money the taxpayer will help you
I don’t know much about this, but in my understanding, it’s not that the handle hides in the door, but the fact that the latch inside is electronic. Using a mechanical latch that will work even without any electrical power would solve the problem.
It's both. The electric latch can trap occupants inside the vehicle, and the external handles make it difficult for rescuers to quickly access anyone trapped inside.
How do rescuers get into the car via the handle when it's locked? Or are cars supposed to unlock upon failure/crashes?
Yes part of the regulation is airbag deployment or ev battery fire has to trigger unlocking all the doors.
Long before Tesla existed, the Hurst tool (aka Jaws of Life) was created. It's like a giant can opener for cars, and firemen love to use it. The lack of door handles, locked doors, and even smashed and jammed doors,don't really stop firefighters from getting in. This has been a thing since the 80s at least. Also, Teslas do have mechanical door handles on the inside, so occupants can open doors without power, but these factoids don't make for good rage bait.
Yeah under a snap cover in the map pocket. I won't ride in the back seat of one.
Nobody wants to rescue anyone in a burning SwastiKKKar.
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How can it has been approved first? in case of crash and battery disconnect for whatever reason, you are trapped in the car, cannot get in cannot get out‽‽‽
Also I'd like to know after let's say 10 years, how many kWh did you save thanks to that?
So, the flush handles actually save a lot.
The thing is, there’s purely mechanical ways of solving the problem. Including a hinge set somewhere towards the middle- so you push one side in, and the other angled out so you can open it.
Not the most convenient, but it’s less inconvenient than an over engineered piece of shit that breaks every winter.
Hyundai Ioniq 5 works like this. Flush handles that can extend mechanically or can be extended by pushing the front of the handle into the car, to make the rear protrude. Then pull the rear to open the door.
Last time I got on a coworker's Tesler, thats how they worked. Push the large part in with your thumb and the handle pops out. Curl your fingers around it and pull.
The thing I thought of later was "that made sene to me, who grew up in the 70's/80's/90's with handles that had a button you push in with your thumb. No kid knows that anymore."
That’s not what is being banned- though the newer style could still be electric and problematic, the style they’re really going after seems motorized pop out handles that look like this:
Yeah, that design is dumb... but also they must have changed the design. I don't have and don't ever care to have one, so I'm not sure on that.
The more expensive models have the motorised handles.
I don't have and don't ever care to have one, so I'm not sure on that
Same, really. Even just getting in one is a bad idea.
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