40 years ago when you pulled on the outside door handle of your Pontiac 7000 or whatever, the window rolled down a little and you got in and drove off. And this magical sophistication wasn't limited to just the exterior door handle, even the interior handle had this amazing ability thanks to the incredible power of 1980's computer technology. With no errors on the touchscreen!
But since Jimmy Carter left office cars seem to have lost the ability to roll down the window when the interior handle is pulled -- these days only the exterior handle still retains that ability. Now, I understand how we lost supersonic airline travel and moon landing technology, but how did our species manage to lose the basic technology that makes interior door handles work like the exterior ones?
Yeah, yeah, I know. Stickers, passenger training, 2021, etc. That's not my question. And don't make up theories about slow windows or weak cables or laws of physics only non-Teslas can violate. I'm wanting to know if anyone has ever explained how/why this happened. It just seems like at some point in the design review process someone must have raised a hand and said: "Wait, so the door handles won't work right? And the only way to exit properly is by pressing a secret unlabeled button like you're in some sort of escape room?"
Even if the answer is simply that cost reduction efforts left the "emergency" handle without a sensor to trigger the window that still wouldn't fully explain it. Why would Telsa add the tremendous cost of a fancy motorized door opening mechanism to slightly improve ergonomics only to create a legendary ergonomic screwup by omitting the 10-cent sensor from the regular handle? It just doesn't make sense.
But since Jimmy Carter left office cars seem to have lost the ability to roll down the window when the interior handle is pulled -- these days only the exterior handle still retains that ability. Now, I understand how we lost supersonic airline travel and moon landing technology, but how did our species manage to lose the basic technology that makes interior door handles work like the exterior ones?
Yeah, yeah, I know. Stickers, passenger training, 2021, etc. That's not my question. And don't make up theories about slow windows or weak cables or laws of physics only non-Teslas can violate. I'm wanting to know if anyone has ever explained how/why this happened. It just seems like at some point in the design review process someone must have raised a hand and said: "Wait, so the door handles won't work right? And the only way to exit properly is by pressing a secret unlabeled button like you're in some sort of escape room?"
Even if the answer is simply that cost reduction efforts left the "emergency" handle without a sensor to trigger the window that still wouldn't fully explain it. Why would Telsa add the tremendous cost of a fancy motorized door opening mechanism to slightly improve ergonomics only to create a legendary ergonomic screwup by omitting the 10-cent sensor from the regular handle? It just doesn't make sense.