The problem is this bullshit was allowed on the road in the first place.
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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I love that this happens after little bitch Elon does Trumps bidding. Almost like that’s literally never worked out well for anyone.
Elon is still helping Trump and pushing Nazis in Europe. He just had a fake fight and less in public eye to help his stock.
A regulation in China isn’t going to change that.
Big government is oppressing small businesses again! Thanks Obama!
I read the article. It sounds like the auto makers concern is that they don't think they have been given enough time to solve the problem (the problem being one which may kill people while we wait for a solution).
I think we should give them all the time they want, as long as they stop selling cars without safe door handles RIGHT NOW.
Your comment is giga based because it doesn't let the overton window get shifted by being too suggestible.
Your brain still went where logic goes, not where was suggested. So important at times like this.
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“We meed more time even though door handles are a solved problem.”
I’m calling corpo lobbied bullshit. 2 years is enough time to put a normal door handle on your car.
they got lazy, they fully adopted the electronic one, and dint want to "waste money" bringing back the old one, in thier recent and future models.
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"That's harder than it sounds."
Is it, though? Is it really? We've been making manual car door latches for 100 years.
It's only hard for Musk, and only because he just doesn't want to do it.
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harder than it sounds... yeah the technology isn't there yet! we need research and scientific breakthrough to invent a door handle that you can actually handle. no one's even thought of the concept before.
I can't wait for elon musk to invent the door handle. I hope it's another display
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Is this because the door handle is some complicated electronic mechanism rather than a latch? Gee who could have possibly predicted that would be a problem.
My neighbour has a Tesla and last year I had great fun watching her trying to defrost her car enough to get the door handle to even come out.
If the door handle is frozen, the whole car is probably frozen.
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After renting a couple cars with electronic door poppers, I find them plainly worse than mechanical door latches. They're a solution in search of a problem, and some implementations are hazardous.
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Tesla disregarded all knowledge about automotive door safety to make a more expensive and much more dangerous door handle.
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