Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 hours agoTesla whined about it citing all the crap they’d have to work around in their design in order to make a normal mechanical linkage. Funny how no other upper tier manufacturer has trouble with all the power windows and window power pre-offsetting for interference fits. They manage to have mechanical linkages.
That doesn’t follow. The 3 and y both have mechanical handles that only close flush by a spring for aerodynamics. Literally every manufacturer has copied that in at least one model.
Only the s, x, and CT have retractable handles, and it’s mostly Chinese cars that copy that.
They are not mechanical.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Yeah I’m not shocked major car company with the least amount of experience in mechanical engineering had that issue.
Give that to a team of 90’s Honda engineers and they’d have it done by lunch with a price tag a 1/3rd of the Tesla mechanism.
BanMe@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Oh those Honda engineers would have laughed and laughed. “Aluminum chassis and plastic body support?!” I can hear them say through hysterics.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Yeah, the style at the time was “rust chassis and paint is body support” tbh