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China is banning hidden door handles on all cars sold in the country, becoming the first country in the world to target the feature – which was popularized by Tesla but has for years drawn concern over safety risks.

The feature has previously come under heavy scrutiny, both in China and elsewhere.

Last September, Tesla said it was looking into redesigning the way to open its car doors in an emergency, after several accidents where passengers were reportedly killed or severely injured in burning vehicles because rescuers could not open them.

Other Tesla owners have reported having to break their own car windows after buckling their children in and then being unable to get in the car again, according to an investigation by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

An investigation by Bloomberg found 140 incidents of people being trapped in their Teslas due to problems with the door handles, including several that resulted in horrific injuries.

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Name one of their smart choices.

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

The plug they came up with, that eventually became the NAC standard. Technology Connections did a video about it, and he is no Tesla fan, I assure you of that.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 22 minutes ago

Yeah sure and TC isn’t right about everything. NACS currently doesn’t support (and hasn’t for years) 800v charging. CCS does. I can charge my ioniq 5 in 15 minutes up to 80%. This is like saying Tesla did self driving cars first, except they still don’t have it working properly, they’ve just been claiming so for a decade.

If your product is only good as a future, not yet implemented, version of itself, then it’s not a product and shouldn’t be bought. You’re selling future promises, rather than current status.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

But Teslas still work at only 400V, while the rest of the industry is up to 800V.