> If your car has pushbutton electronic door openers, PRACTICE opening the door without battery power.
Please stop building cars with this "feature." We honestly should make them illegal.
Please stop building cars with this "feature." We honestly should make them illegal.
I’m confident that if consumer sentiment starts to skew one way regarding electronic door handles, we will also see a reversal. What is unfortunate now is that other automakers are following the lead that Tesla set. Tesla essentially proved one type of electronic door and it is engineered in such a way to be cheap and reliable enough. I’m confident that if engineers are given the space to really innovate and explore ideas, they can find something that is both better mechanically while remaining highly aerodynamic.
ID.BUZZ with physical controls would be my dream car, no joke.
Currently the main issues for me are the shitty touch buttons and underpowered heater (it's the same as in the ID.4, which has like 30% of the interior volume of the BUZZ...)
And, I swear I heard about another one for cyber trucks, but with the vitriol surrounding them I'm not even going to try and find it.
Looks like some models might have the manual door release switch easily accessible in the front but not in the back, about what you’d expect from Tesla.
At least the fact that they have a decent solution shows that there’s no reason this has to be a problem for electric doors.
And on mine, the same handle that you push to open with electricity will also open manually if you pull it twice. Which is handy, because the 12v battery failed in the first year. Feels like 12v batteries are a lot less reliable lately.
Getting in from the outside with the manual handle isn't so obvious, it's kind of hidden at the back of the handle.