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artyom
piefed.social

The designs have come under scrutiny after two fatal crashes in China involving Xiaomi EVs, in which power failures were suspected to have prevented doors from being opened.

This is just the dumbest shit imaginable, and all for what reason? What is the benefit? None. Why?

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kibblebitsreply
quokk.au

So that they can say teslas cannot be sold in China like the US is saying about Chinese cars.

It’s just rich people dick waving and the wind knocks all of us down

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swicanoreply
programming.dev

Non-protruding door handles marginally improve drag properties. Same with them wanting to get rid of side mirrors. It's small gains, but it is gains. And non-protruding doesn't mean the shit they've decided to implement, there's mechanical ways to accomplish this if they really care

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nillocreply
discuss.tchncs.de

Rivian does it on their trucks I believe. And AMC and British Leland both figured it out in the fucking 1970s.

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artyomreply
piefed.social

This isn't about protruding door handles. Its about electronic door handles.

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