Ah yes, I forgot that door handles are the exact same design in every vehicle from a manufacturer regardless of interior differences. Always the same handle no matter how badly it fits.
I’ve never had trouble opening a door. You have a Tesla though so you’re probably used to having to explain to people how to do otherwise trivial things in your “car of the future”. Like how to open the glove box, enter and exit the vehicle, etc.
No, 90% of people have no problem. The few that don’t see the button on the door handle, usually go straight for the emergency handle. A very small percentage aren’t the type to grab things randomly and just ask if they’re not sure.
Everyone focuses on the dumbest takes and experiences, not the real world average. Actually owning a Tesla for the last 6 years and experiencing all of this personally, including long distance trips, and even supercharging on CA on those trips, made me realize just how most online posts about them aren’t accurate.
And how defensive some people get when their opinion based solely on reading shit online is challenged by someone with actual experience.
I’d like to jump in here and point out there is an easy solution to this…
Make a 2 stage handle. 1st stage opens the door with the electronics, pull the handle further to engage the manual override. This is what Ford does in the Mach-E.
So yeah, it’s a shitty design to have the emergency door handle as a separate hidden feature.
Oh yes, I forgot that the exact shape and position of this handle is the exact same on those vehicles as well. None of them are the exact same, that’s the entire point of the complaints.
Ah yes, I forgot that door handles are the exact same design in every vehicle from a manufacturer regardless of interior differences. Always the same handle no matter how badly it fits.
I’ve never had trouble opening a door. You have a Tesla though so you’re probably used to having to explain to people how to do otherwise trivial things in your “car of the future”. Like how to open the glove box, enter and exit the vehicle, etc.
No, 90% of people have no problem. The few that don’t see the button on the door handle, usually go straight for the emergency handle. A very small percentage aren’t the type to grab things randomly and just ask if they’re not sure.
Everyone focuses on the dumbest takes and experiences, not the real world average. Actually owning a Tesla for the last 6 years and experiencing all of this personally, including long distance trips, and even supercharging on CA on those trips, made me realize just how most online posts about them aren’t accurate.
And how defensive some people get when their opinion based solely on reading shit online is challenged by someone with actual experience.
Did you forget that every car has the exact same mechanism? Pull handle, door opens? On 90%+ of cars?
I’d like to jump in here and point out there is an easy solution to this…
Make a 2 stage handle. 1st stage opens the door with the electronics, pull the handle further to engage the manual override. This is what Ford does in the Mach-E.
So yeah, it’s a shitty design to have the emergency door handle as a separate hidden feature.
Oh yes, I forgot that the exact shape and position of this handle is the exact same on those vehicles as well. None of them are the exact same, that’s the entire point of the complaints.