Comment by mandeepj
20 days ago
> evolution of the Tesla door handle
I really like Tesla's approach to door handles - it's clean, polished, and gives a fine and smooth look. But was surprised to learn that China will ban them beginning next year. Other countries might follow suit as well.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-hidden-door-handles-cars-...
The main purpose of a handle is to open a door, not look polished. Looking polished is not helpful when you're dead because you couldn't get out of that car in an emergency . So IMHO it shouldn't be surprising that they're being banned.
There are obvious ways to design a door handle which looks exactly the same, but isn't electronic.
Yes, but it is expensive.
How many people have to die for aesthetics?
Form over function is not the correct approach for designing something that can kill you if it doesn’t work when you need it to.
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