Bonnie-
You could easily be right. If you tell me "since sunday, I've spoken to authoritative people at TSLA and they said don't worry about it" then I am willing to believe you got the right answer. I never really claimed one way or the other whether this could happen. Indeed I hope you are right, and it makes alot of sense that this would have been caught in design. I have no problem being wrong, and am done repeating the claim ( its not so much that I am repeating the claim as someone asked about the circumstances) Anyway, thanks Bonnie for relaying your experience and I love the fact that you are trying to be a bit of information moderator here.
I do appreciate your offer but its not necessary. If you say you had recent reassurance from Tesla, then I am reassured.
So Bonnie- I'll give you a few fairly specific examples where I was concerned.
1) We were in a parking garage with somewhat low clearances. Lots of pipes running overhead, clearly below the clearance of the FWD doors. We opened the FWD doors and stopped them about 3 inches from the pipes. Would the sensors have stopped them in the next 3 inches? I don't know, maybe. how sure are you, and who's responsible if it does? I also had a similar situation where I parked in a spot where the door would open into a thin tree.
2) If I just stand 24 inches away from one of the front door and hit open, its absolutely going to hit me. Thats fine, I'm soft. Will it stop for a car thats 24 inches away? the tech guy says it will stop when it hits something. I don't love that. I'd rather push open a door thats opened 2 inches than try to catch it before it hits something. Certainly I don't trust a valet to do that.
3) (And I am willing to accept this is my unique experience): Once I hit open on the drivers door, and it popped open about four millimeters. I could not gently reclose it, and I couldn't power open. There's no handle so I pried the door open with my finger tips.
4) (also likely unique to my car) At delivery no one could leave the drivers door open. it would just shut at random times. The tech came and recalibrated the door (during which time it must have shut 25 times on him, poor guy). It seems more stable now.
5) (perhaps only my experience as well) Sitting in row 2, I was trying to open the FWD. I held down (or up) the button (honestly I can't remember if I was pushing or pulling maybe I'm an idiot). In any case, the door popped open, reclosed, made a whirring sound then made a loud snapping/cracking sound. My wife and I are a both a long way from our engineering days, but we both said "that can't be good". It turns out if you RTFM and "open" until it opens a little, then press open all the way it seems to work fine.
ok fine I know now, but what about random person sitting in that seat trying to get out. I have to confess I've been sloppy about recounting this experience)
6) (probably unique for me?) I press the exterior FWD open button, sometimes the door opens fully, sometimes it just pops open an inch. I don't even know HOW to precede from here without the FOB/touchscreen.
So my concerns/paranoia are a mix of
a) bad communication from TSLA on overlapping door. Not confidence inspiring.
b) a few circumstances which I think are somewhat fair because most people would have similar concerns (1 and 2)
c) some unique stuff which may have been caused by me (5), some not so much (3, 4 and 6)
Thanks again for your willingness to correspond. I struggle to think of any brand with customers as dedicated as Tesla.
Quite honestly, all these posts aren't so much me trying to complain as clarify direct questions. If I get a couple (lets say 3) PMs saying saying "go back to lurking" I am happy to do so.
I really am confused by your repeated worries over the doors.
So first off - your delivery specialist was wrong regarding the doors colliding if opened at the same time. If you pm me, I'm happy to supply you with my home number and talk to you offline. I believe your ds said this, but please take me up on my offer so you will quit repeating this. It's wrong. And once we talk, you will understand that it is wrong.
Regarding your other worries? I've had zero of the worries you're listing. I've stood next to the doors, waved hands, jumped in front, etc & everytime, the doors behaved in a safe way. Zero potential of scratches or harm.
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Congrats!!!