Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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.
artyom@piefed.social 1 week ago
Again, there is no such mechanism.
It’s none of these things.
But they didn’t. So the problem exists.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Then how does the door stay closed? If I walk up to someone else’s Tesla, I can’t open it. Why? Because it’s locked. If the owner walks up, they can open it. Why? Because they have the key.
Yes, the lock works differently than many other cars, but there’s still a lock.
Here’s an article that talks about how the manual release works. It exists, it’s just annoying to access, and not something an average child (or possibly adult) can intuit.
The article is stating that the override should be easier to access and use.
artyom@piefed.social 1 week ago
You’re thinking of the door latch, not the door lock.
Again, there is no physical locking mechanism.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The JUST SAID there already exists a manual override. Just make it accessible from the exterior. Problem solved. Shut the fuck up.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The lock is what prevents the latch from unlatching without some authentication mechanism present. Whether it’s a software lock or a physical lock is irrelevant.
And you can absolutely do the same on the exterior: add a physical lock that interacts with the latch. That’s basically how every other car works. Basically, there’s a motor to release the latch for electronic locks, and the key and handle intact with the latch directly. There’s no reason Tesla cars couldn’t satisfy that interaction. They could even have the handle pull charge a small microcontroller that scans the key card if they really don’t want a purely mechanical lock for some reason.