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Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds
NutWrench@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“That’s harder than it sounds.”
Is it, though? Is it really? We’ve been making manual car door latches for 100 years.
It’s only hard for Musk, and only because he just doesn’t want to do it.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
reptar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Again, what did they miss? Spell it out for us, please!
artyom@piefed.social 2 months ago
The point is that the entire passenger entry system has been designed around electronic door handles. So you might think it’s as simple as just swapping them for mechanical ones but it’s not.
The handles are really just buttons. Requests to a computer.
The “locks” are just a binary state of the entry system that determines if conditions are satisfied to release the mechanical latch when the request is made.sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
We’ve had electronic door locks with manual override for… 3 decades now?
artyom@piefed.social 2 months ago
We’re not talking about door locks, but door latches and handles. There are no “locks” on Teslas. As I said “locked” is just a state in the computer.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“Lock” is a term for the mechanism that controls the latch and restricts operation. Whether the access mechanism is digital (key card, remote, etc) or physical (key, dial, etc) is irrelevant.
My point is it’s a solved problem. You can have a mixed physical and digital system. In fact, Teslas already have a mixed system as evidenced by the existence of a mechanical override. The issue is that the mechanical override is difficult to use and inaccessible from the outside.
If Tesla used something that already exists, we wouldn’t have this problem. It can still have the same interface (the button in the handle on both sides), just simplify the mechanical override and expose a way to access it from outside.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Seriously. Every other car maker has figured out how to make normal door handles. You can even buy the parts directly from them if you find it too hard to design yourself.