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I just got myself a Chinese Lynk & Co 08. It has hidden door handles. After reading news like this I get kinda nervous.
Great car overall, shares the same platform and tech as the newly announced volvo XC70 (the new one).
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Honestly do not understand how cars are not more heavily monitored for these kinds of safety features even for today.
Most modern cars lock the doors when going faster than the walking speed so in case of crash the doors are more unlikely to fly open. Similary most modern cars unlock the doors after crash so passengers can get out from the car. Tesla included. In case the door fails to unlock there usually are way to manualy open the locks, but Tesla has made it to a treasure hunt with multiple stages, hidden paths and there is a wizard at the end asking quizzes before you can open the door. So in the end Musk can say there is a way to mechanically open the doors, because there is. Its just not convinient or safe.
They asked if the car had passed the safety test. I said I'd paid for the car to pass the safety test. They said welcome aboard.
Fuck Musk is just a less likeable Fantastic.
Also just as an aside, in the Fallout Hoi4 mod if you puppet the Mojave brotherhood as Caesars legion they are led by Fantastic.
Gee, why did DOGE fire most of the NHTSA? Auto safety has been corrupted since Detroit got addicted to selling people cheaply made trucks on a safety loophole. Ironically, people will tell you they bought their flippy tanks for safety.
Like when they suddenly decided every single function of the car including those you're expected to operate while driving should be under 4 sub-menus on a touch screen you need to look at.
Tesla leads all manufacturers for crashes two years in a row.
Coincidentally, DOGE fired most NTHSA staff the first week, while Teslurrr was under 17 investigations.
And often not even haptic.
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"AH IT'S SO HOT, I'M BURNING ALIVE! OH GOD MAKE IT STOP!!! Still love my Tesla though."
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.
Tesla will just add regular handles to chinese models, they have factories in China just for the chinese market.
I expect Tesla will continue to decline in the chinese market tho, even now its only bought as a form of conspicuous consumption.
Yes, but when? How long to redesign the door with regular handles? What do you do with the ones already built? Replace the whole door?
How long to redesign the door with regular handles?
Like a day? Car door handles are a pretty mature technology.
What do you do with the ones already built? Replace the whole door?
Yes, you do a staged recall, using the previous recalled doors as material to build the new ones.
But I suspect the law will have a grandfather clause, theres a lot of chinese cars that copied Tesla's mistakes.
The Pinto became so renowned not because it easily blew up, but because people found out Ford had calculated the cost of payments to victims' families and worked out it was cheaper than recalling all the vehicles and fixing the problem. Capitalism has been alive and well for at least the last 50 years.
The Pinto is a good example of how law firms in class actions seed the minds of the public. All Detroit manufacturers had similar gas tank designs at that time, they just decided to focus on Ford because they had more money.
Similarly, unintended acceleration lawsuits against AUDI and Toyota were bullshit, but Toyota had black boxes installed to prove those crying moms were lying.
Chevrolet has been killing people with electric door locks since 2015, but no one cares.
Texas Man and His Dog Found Dead After Becoming Trapped Inside Car https://share.google/CmKibwq8sWOHwHimD
500 years more so
We've all become desensitized automotive death. They're like children dying in schools. *scroll* *scroll* next story. next dopamine hit.
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.
Look, it's very simple.
In the event of power loss, simply disassemble the rear door pocket, open the small hatch down there, and pull the cable to open the door. While concussed. And probably on fire.
I don't know why people are having such a hard time with it.
I'm not even making those instructions up, btw.
Safety policies are written in blood. Or in this case, ashes.
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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.
Any locked car cannot be opened from the outside regardless of whether handles are there or not.
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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?
They can push them into local rivers because they are green.
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