Maybe its just some of us can't relate to the same issue you are having. There is two sides to a coin. Personally, I agree to disagree, live and let live, its no big deal
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I can't handle it! - A Rant
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CyberGus
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navt
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Would be tea leaves have no problem figuring it out. All captured on cctv but car remained locked. Opportunist.
I would not be surprised if one day there is no button nor handle, the door knows to open because you look at it or think it and it knows it's safe to open. That could be the ultimate in user interface, it's intuitive because it knows what you want and not whether you know how to use it.
That generation may well look back and laugh at having to share handles and buttons, what a way to spread germs - oh hang on.
That generation may well look back and laugh at having to share handles and buttons, what a way to spread germs - oh hang on.
roblab
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This thread reminds me of a friend of mine who lives in San Francisco. Bought a new Model S, and was driving home when a woman stepped off the curb and started fumbling with the car door. He rolled the window down to hear, "How the H*** do you get these doors open??" Evidently street walkers just wait on a corner until a nice car pulls up at the light, then pops the door open and sits down. Didn't work, and at least one fellow was glad.
You mean after a couple of decades of sometimes refusing to open at night or when it’s raining or randomly flinging the doors open on the motorway or not working at all when you lose mobile signal coverage?
The outside doors are definitely worse than the Model 3, but there is only one button, so there's not much there to mislead people. Weird but not difficult to figure out by yourself.
At least there's an actual problem to solve by rethinking the exterior handles of a car: Traditional handles cause drag.
Where as there's absolutely no problem with interior handles (unlike manual window winders, not least of the problems being getting obstructed by the AA road map in the door pocket
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If Tesla made the handle symmetrical (large bit on both ends) with a pivot in the middle, that way you could flip it open at either end. There'd just be an actuator at both ends which opened the door from either way you did it.
Would solve the problem of which hand you used or which angle you came at it from. It might look a bit less "handle like" though, so could still confuse.
Would solve the problem of which hand you used or which angle you came at it from. It might look a bit less "handle like" though, so could still confuse.
So the emergency pull handle won't damage the window now as it drops the glass down slightly? I'll have to check that on my 2021 MIC refresh then as it still gives the warning message of possible damage on screen.
The illuminated button helps, especially at night, but people still fumble around asking how to open the door.
CyberGus
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CyberGus
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Theoretically, FSD could predict a open-door collision and inhibit the button release momentarily.
Won't stop people from using the emergency release, tho
