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The worst thing about those falcon doors on model x is that I keep hitting my head ( I am 6'3") on the pretty sharp corner when it's sometimes not fully up, just like this bmw ceo did: https://electrek.co/2016/03/07/bmw-ceo-tesla-interview-model... I think it's a pretty terrible door usability wise, but it brought some marketing buzz to model x, like a wow factor

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I don't understand who decides to put sharp corners on doors. It seems like an unnecessary danger.

Doors are the toughest part of a car to design; if you pay attention to cars which get a mid-life 'face-lift', you will see that they never change the doors (even when they change every other body panel). There are an immense number of constraints on a door, not the least of which are the hinge and the gasket. When the Model X was announced, my first comment was that the doors were a bad idea, just because of the complexity of the mechanism, and the 'legacy' of door issues on innumerable cars.

Because doors are part of the exterior design.

Normally you're pretty careful opening a door that hasn't fully opened. It's too bad it was held down and he tried to exit it without looking.

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