Bloomberg Investigation found 140 cases of Tesla Door Handles trapping people inside including several cases resulting in people getting burned alive.
Now Tesla is under investigation in both China and US and Franz told Bloomberg that they are redesigning the handles so that you no longer need to read the manual to know how to open the door in an emergency.
And all it took was the Chinese preparing to ban Teslas from the world’s biggest car market.
Or what - did you think Elon actually CARED about those people who got burned alive because of his “cool” door handles ? LOL. Sociopaths only care about themselves you dummy !
I kept warning about this issue for years but it is only when Elon was FORCED to change the design that suddenly Franz realized that door handles that actually open doors “make a lot of sense” … NO SHIT
Bloomberg article is behind paywall but here is one from CNN:
if you search google news there are MANY articles on this subject from basically every outlet both news, automotive and EV oriented.
I refuse to get in a Tesla - i won’t even use Uber Electric because it is likely to be a Tesla - but even for me this fiasco coming to an end is good news because …
Because it’s the Tesla brand and image itself that is dying, not just their retarded “innovations” …
VolksWagen now said that it will be going back to their old ways of making cars before they Tesla-ified them. That means return to normal door handles and physical buttons instead of touch screens and capacitive switches.
This was reported on in the same article that covered the Tesla door handles below:
as for GigaCastings - maybe i was wrong about that. maybe it’s a legitimate innovation. of course Elon didn’t invent it - he simply used that obscure tech ( developed by another company ) in a mainstream vehicle. but apparently it isn’t as bad as we all expected it to be given Elon’s track record of redesigning everything to be worse for no reason except to reduce number of parts.
Elon is like that man with a hammer that sees everything as a nail. He always wants to reduce the number of parts so he eliminates things like door handles, steering wheel stalks, gear shifter, key fob, top half of the steering wheel and so on …
90% of the time these are bad decisions, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day and maybe GigaCastings was that moment.
we have lost an entire decade of automotive design because of Elon Musk bamboozling FOOLS and then real carmakers like VW rushing to imitate it for fear of losing Investors …
this is why i had to buy out my Volvo PHEV at the end of the lease for the first time in my life - because there was simply nothing to replace it with.
Volvo was designed BEFORE the rise of Tesla. Meanwhile the Tesla-ified vehicles like Mercedes EQS are getting canned because the FAD has ended. now we have to wait for a new generation of cars to be designed without having anything to drive in the mean time.
all thanks to the greatest scammer of our time - Elon Musk.
I actually rented the new Mercedes E-Class with Tesla Model S style robotized handles and they worked well and looked and felt good. But the E class at least had a physical door release on the inside. And actually when i was returning the car the Negro at the rental company didn’t know how to open the door and i had to show him.
Elon was projecting exponential growth but we now know the people interested in gimmick-mobile were actually a small subset of overall population. This gives hope that the next gen of German vehicles will have normal handles.