Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones.

• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  aerodynamic efficiency

  For internal door handles?

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Optimized for flatulence.

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  • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was thinking of the external ones which aren’t default exposed

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      That was always Musk bullshit. Flush mechanical handles were a thing in the 70s.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I thought they did have internal door handles but they’re hidden away. The problem is often they’re difficult to get to even when the car is completely intact.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When it comes to driving a self-propelled crematorium, I’d primarily be concerned about the internal door handles.

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• datendefekt@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The improvement removing the handles is there, but negligible. Especially considering the safety implications. Didn’t China ban flush door handles for safety reasons?

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  • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Didn’t China ban flush door handles for safety reasons?

    Yeah, but that literally just happened last month and doesn’t take effect until January 2027. It’s not like they did that years ago because they saw it coming.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s just nonsense justification they came up with after the fact. Ferraris have door handles, so clearly they’re not much of an issue.

  Anyway the car isn’t going to exceed 80 miles an hour anyways so aerodynamics barely comes into it.

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