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Can anyone offer a good faith explanation of why they thought electronically controlled doors would be a good design choice?
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.
Electric windows are fine. And digital gauges are also fine... after all, they are all fed by the computer anyway. And you cant get away from the ECU because its require to meet emission regulations. And a display screen is nice to show more information about the car thats not possible otherwise... but all the infotainment crap... yeah that nonsense can go.
Touch volume control and digital on/off is the stupidest shit ever
and the headlight controls locked behind touchscreen menus with shitty default behaviour, resulting in people sitting in parking lots (sometimes empty cars!) just blasting a sun at people's eyes without reason, I fucking hate that shit
like dude I get blinded by a car parked across the street facing the other direction because they left their headlights on while they ran into the convenience store and the lights are reflecting off the store windows, I've nearly got a softball in the face before because of being blinded like that
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.
Are all American EV cars designed to lock doors like that?
Of course not.
It's not just American consumers these electric vehicles and many like them are popular the world round.
Moreover, how long will it take for US auto regulators to ban them the way China already has?
That article states just this month that they are looking at banning them not that they already have banned them. Do you have information that they did already ban them?
Also after reading over the full article I can't get over this one sentence right here....
On NPR they were saying it's pretty much a done deal to ban them by 2027 but I just grabbed the first link I came across. Also tbf they weren't excluding you from having electronic openers, they just were requiring them to have mechanical backups.
it seems the door handles on other evs, seem so flimsy, and could easily jam or not work.
cool factor first
safety third
but first, the goddamn news
But have you considered how much cheaper they are to make? 🤔
Pretty sure it's unironically just that it looks futuristic and is cheaper or something. It's one of those things where there's not too much to it, it's just a dumb design.
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.