A Tesla driver and two kids were burned alive after crashing into a tree because rescuers were unable to open the electronic doors, according to police.
Honestly you can get the same esthetic look with some engineering. Just have two half to the door handle, the bottom pushes inwards with light pressure from your fingers and the the top pulls outwards when you pull from below.
LOOK AT THAT
No electronics involved, same look and “aerodynamics”, and you won’t die in a fire trapped inside your vehicle.
I don’t mind electronics out of hand, but I don’t want my car to automatically be a data source for the manufacturer and remote control should be impossible, or at the very least something the owner can disable.
Unfortunately, neither is true of my 2019 Chevy Volt. Maybe my next EV.
I’ve been wondering about the viability of using the modem in my Jeep, it would be cool to see what it does on a test bench with some spare sensors sending test data.
If I decide to keep the car (been debating trading it for an older truck), I’m definitely removing it at the least, but its hardware I bought and I love playing with old discarded hardware.
Hey, don’t blame it on the customers. Blame it on the developers competing with each other to constantly keep innovating new ideas to one-up each other. And then they force these new technologies onto the customers because there are no other options, even if older models were more logical & functional.
Can anyone offer a good faith explanation of why they thought electronically controlled doors would be a good design choice?
also the retractable door handles, which i dont like. seems many EV have copied that feature.
Honestly you can get the same esthetic look with some engineering. Just have two half to the door handle, the bottom pushes inwards with light pressure from your fingers and the the top pulls outwards when you pull from below.
LOOK AT THAT
No electronics involved, same look and “aerodynamics”, and you won’t die in a fire trapped inside your vehicle.
Because American consumers are obsessed with pointless gadgetry, and bullshit sells cars.
I hate electronics in cars.
Efi and abs. Thats all anyone needs. Roll downs, manual, no screen, no digital gauge shit.
Sadly thats illegal to build now. And why cars cost so much.
I don’t mind electronics out of hand, but I don’t want my car to automatically be a data source for the manufacturer and remote control should be impossible, or at the very least something the owner can disable.
Unfortunately, neither is true of my 2019 Chevy Volt. Maybe my next EV.
I’ve been wondering about the viability of using the modem in my Jeep, it would be cool to see what it does on a test bench with some spare sensors sending test data.
If I decide to keep the car (been debating trading it for an older truck), I’m definitely removing it at the least, but its hardware I bought and I love playing with old discarded hardware.
Hey, don’t blame it on the customers. Blame it on the developers competing with each other to constantly keep innovating new ideas to one-up each other. And then they force these new technologies onto the customers because there are no other options, even if older models were more logical & functional.
Moreover, how long will it take for US auto regulators to ban them the way China already has?
it seems the door handles on other evs, seem so flimsy, and could easily jam or not work.