Can China ban retina burning headlights, rear facing floodlights and aftermarket exhausts now?
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Is it really that hard to make one of those recessed handles with a mechanical linkage instead of an electric one?
Seems like the real issue is the electric door latch itself, not the style of handle.
Why do need this in the first place? So a 2 ton SUV can be 0.0058% more aerodynamic?
Tesla whined about it citing all the crap they’d have to work around in their design in order to make a normal mechanical linkage. Funny how no other upper tier manufacturer has trouble with all the power windows and window power pre-offsetting for interference fits. They manage to have mechanical linkages.
Yeah I'm not shocked the major car company with the least amount of experience in mechanical engineering had that issue.
Give that to a team of 90's Honda engineers and they'd have it done by lunch with a price tag a 1/3rd of the Tesla mechanism.
Oh those Honda engineers would have laughed and laughed. "Aluminum chassis and plastic body support?!" I can hear them say through hysterics.
Yeah, the style at the time was "rust chassis and paint is body support" tbh
Aluminum chassis is the one thing I ain't gonna give Tesla any shit about.
That doesn't follow. The 3 and y both have mechanical handles that only close flush by a spring for aerodynamics. Literally every manufacturer has copied that in at least one model.
Only the s, x, and CT have retractable handles, and it's mostly Chinese cars that copy that.
They are not mechanical.
Yeah, it's hard. How is it going to come out while there's nothing to grab on to?
E: I dunno who's downvoting me or why. I'm vehemently opposed to electronic door handles of any kind. But if you're going to have door handles that protrude and retract, they're gonna have to necessarily have a motor to push out against ice.
You press on it, tons of Chinese cars already do this.
How does it come out when you press on it?
With a fucking spring.
That's not how fucking springs work.
Fucking springs can expand and contract.
The lever point is offset such that when you press on the taller part of the handle, the front pops out and you can pull.
They freeze quite solid in icy conditions. It's really remarkable!
They freeze quite solid in icy conditions
Yeah that's where I was going with this...
You press it in and it pops out.
Idk I'm not a mechanical engineer.
why did i find this so funny
These recessed handles usually have some sort of fallback. For me, I don't want rescuers to have a single second of uncertainty of how to open my car. They should be able to quickly yank the door open, not fumble for some recessed/hidden button. Every second counts.
EU next, please.
Bright headlights and combined brake/turn signals too please
Don't get me started on that, stupid direct led brakes lights should be outright illegal. They literally blind every following car behind, specially if the windshield is dirty or foggy.
How those damn things got approved in the first place is ~~beyond my understanding~~ corruption.
Clean your windows 🤔
As they should, stupid over complicated and absolutely failure ridden unnecessary design. kinda like this poorly worded statement
Musk nearly bankrupted Tesla when he insisted that the door handles must be flush after stealing the company from its original founders.
I mean, "stealing" is a strong word. Elon bought them out, and they're both enjoying a net worth in the hundreds of million.
What's more disturbing about Elon's tenure as head of the company is how social media manipulation, insider trading, and blatant SEC violations can pump a company's valuation into the stratosphere.
Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard both continued to contribute advances in engineering that far exceeded the Tesla project. But they'll never have the kind of easy credit Elon secured through politics and media manipulation. So don't expect to see them included among the ranks of "billionaire" any time soon.
"Bought them out" is a weak word too though. He placed loyal people on the board and had them vote to give him control of the company.
And now he has been having them vote to give him absurd unseen before "salaries"
He placed loyal people on the board and had them vote to give him control of the company.
He could place loyalists on the board because he bought a controlling interest in the company.
And now he has been having them vote to give him absurd unseen before “salaries”
The latest compensation package has virtually unattainable sales targets. And the compensation is almost entirely in equity that assumes a monumental increase in stock valuation.
If he can manage it, I'd be tempted to say he earned it, except I know he'll only "hit" the target by lying and market manipulation that will collapse as soon as he hits his mark.
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It’s already fucked up that he legally gets to call himself a co-founder for simply being on the board.
I have long observed that moving parts, particularly involving motors, are destined to give me grief as a car ages. The difference is that little motorized interior luxuries aren't going to prevent people from pulling my unconscious body out of a burning wreck, while these door handles have for dozens of people
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