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Flush door handles are the car industry’s latest safety problem - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 20 points 2 months ago

During heavy rain, flush-fit door handles have short-circuited, trapping people in their cars.

This whole thing roots back to Elon Musk being a twat.

He had a habit, in the early days of his involvement with Tesla, of demanding some particular change to the design (and being able to make it stick because of his position) because it would be "more awesome" in his mind. There were a bunch of them, which wasted millions of dollars even back in those much smaller-scale days, and the whole "electronic door handles" thing is that. It's obviously worse in pretty much every way (among them cost, reliability, and safety), but he thought it would be awesome, and he's a self-important blockhead who can't hear any criticism, and so here we are.