Flush door handles are the car industry’s latest safety problem
Flush door handles are the car industry’s latest safety problem
arstechnica.com
Flush door handles are the car industry’s latest safety problem
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Unsolving problems previously solved has been a staple of the (mostly EV) car industry for awhile now.
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It’s been a staple of every industry.
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Maybe I’m being too pedantic, but the headline is flush door handles, but the concern is electric latches and maybe electric handles. I wish newswriters care enough to be accurate.
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Design over function was always a bad choice.
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Sooooooo pointless.
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It's interesting to see that China is taking this seriously and might ban them, while the US forgets more and more about "car safety".
If China bans it, most manufacturers will have to follow their rules if they want to sell cars there, including Tesla.
It's not much in the grand scheme of things but it's nice to see that at least one major country is considering this.
I first became aware of that when I learned the US allows cars to use blinking rear brake lights instead of actual separate blinker lights, for the sake of design. It's completely insane.
They take this urgent issue so seriously that they will ban… new cars being made with this feature… by 2027! Great, after all only… peoples safety is in question!
Its a step into the right direction, but are we really in a world where we are to celebrate common sense decisions?
2027 is only 1 model year away (2026 cars are already being sold). It took fucking forever for rear cameras to be mandated in the USA by comparison