int32_t
Tesla Spotter
Yes, except the highest point of the door doesn't really matter with these concrete beams. Sensors at the highest point would help in a flat-roofed building, but a protruding beam can hit just about anywhere. Unlike a normal door where you must watch "out and around," with a Falcon Wing Door you just have to watch "up." The doors seem to take care of the "out and around" part just fine. I can't imagine it would be that difficult, given the large proportion of glass on the roof, to check for vertical obstructions that aren't flat (flat ones being surfaces which seem to be obvious to the door).I think the best way to fix it and agreed by the SC manager is to include additional sensors on the joint of the door, sensor has to face up. So this way when FWD goes up, the joint is the highest raising part of the door, that additional sensor will play a critical role to stop the joint and FWD will stop. People can just duck it and crawl out. At lease your door will be saved. I really don't know how inconvenience this might cause to handicap people sitting in the back.
It would be tough to remember to look up when in a tight space I suppose. I'm not certain that this problem can be cured by simply throwing more sensors at it, though. The doors are already bristling with enough sensors to avoid 99% of obstacles out there. And updating the software won't help avoid obstacles the sensors can't see. This is quite the edge-case engineering issue we have here, maybe just find a parking spot that's not under a concrete beam for now? We avoid parking spots that are too narrow to open our normal car doors in, so since that's no longer such a big deal with the X, look for spots that don't have headroom restricted in an uneven manner instead.
Condolences to the folks with <cringe> scraped Model X doors. I can't imagine the moment you hear the crunch.
At least Model X doors can't be thrown open fast enough to catch you by surprise. I, too, keep my distance from rows of parked cars when I'm cycling. My dad very nearly got it real bad on his daily cycling commute to work once ... at the bottom of a steep hill!As an avid cyclist, being "doored" is one of my worst fears. With that said, I never wear earbuds and I am extra ultra vigilant when riding along a row of street parked cars.