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Agreed. Plus the choices were never electrically actuated Vs. standard, plenty of vehicles before Tesla had flush fully mechanical doorhandles that reduced the
by Someone1234 1y ago
Agreed. Plus the choices were never electrically actuated Vs. standard, plenty of vehicles before Tesla had flush fully mechanical doorhandles that reduced the drag coefficient.
Tesla did it to be different, futuristic, and to show off. Then plenty of other electric vehicle manufacturers copied. Even ignoring the safety issues, these things had reliability problems since almost inception and could be frozen shut in the winter.
Between the door handles, removing the turn signal stalk, removing the wiper stalk, non-round non-drive-by-wire wheel, and now putting the shifter in the ceiling, Tesla has made a lot of unforced errors to try to stand out.
- triceratops 1y ago> now putting the shifter in the ceiling They what?! And people are still buying these things? This is the most valuable automaker in the world?
- nemomarx 1y agotheir profits are pretty normal, the stock is clearly more stock in musk himself than in the car company
- mebizzle 1y agoBecause you don't need to use that shifter regularly; you shift gears on the screen in that car and they have capacitive buttons near the caution lights on the ceiling as a redundant backup.
- triceratops 1y ago> you shift gears on the screen in that car You're not helping bro. I'm literally crying right now what even is this car?
- pengaru 1y agoMusk has stated in various ways on different occasions that all driver input is error. When that frames how you imagine drivers of your vehicles interfacing with them, all sorts of stupid shit starts looking like a good idea.