I'm hopeful for Tesla to release their 25k car, and I'm really hoping for my car to last a couple years longer so I can get something from a different manufacturer that realizes some design standards have good reasons behind them.
The door openers can have a good bit of force behind them.
Is it aesthetics? I don’t think theirs look any better. And they feel flimsy AF. They give you nothing to hold onto when manipulating the door. Even if they didn’t freeze, I just don’t like them.
So we’re going to make this more complicated, more failure prone thing that looks and feels worse for no real benefit?
The worst part is that other EVs are adopting it.
The door handle is a gimmick, afaict, with so much other low hanging fruit in the design.
My hunch says less than that. Door handles have more physical moving parts which are going to increase costs and we know Tesla loves to do anything they can to keep those down.
Elon is probably only thinking about the use-case on Mars where a lack of atmospheric oxygen will mean corrosion isn't such a major factor.
I think we're on something like year 7 of Musk promising perfect self-driving cars in one more year.
Or that's the work of SpaceX team and not Musk? So when it fails it's Musk and Musk only, but when it succeeds it's not Musk at all?
Mine is in my bank account; bought Apple @ $7-9/share, before Jobs returned, Dell at $4/share, etc, sold others on buying tickets to hype train the last 27-28 years
Give money to others and let them make you rich. It’s not hard. You take a naive group of youth and project authority at them about how the world works.
We did it with religion, university, nation state economics/currency propagation schemes, technology… circle of life Simba.
Building companies is much more work than a lucky trade or two.
It's a lot easier to move fast and break things when you ignore that.
> but not as bad as the TikTok videos make out
I think we have different bars for "not as bad".
We probably don’t, but you’ve gone out of your way to misrepresent my comment so I don’t know where to go from here. Edit: and not the first time you’ve done this to one of my comments in recent times either.
Here is the exact video I meant. They don’t seem to be wearing gloves either. https://www.tiktok.com/@ddcustomz/video/7068406130653170991?...
As someone who lives in a location that heavily salts the roads, I am not looking forward to a car where a designer living with california weather decides which few parts of the body "need" it... The same causes issues with model 3 door handles that get coated in ice and need to be melted before they can be opened (ice storms usually happens a couple times a winter)