Shit. First responders don't carry a Sawzall?
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2025
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How do people buy these things. I've seen entire car ranges written off for decades, for way less than, might lock you in and burn you alive. I don't get it.
So if I'm understanding correctly, the windows on this car were made of transparent aluminum, not glass.
This has happened before, and nothing seems to be done about it. 🤷♂️
If a person has so little self preservation as to buy one at this point, maybe this is free market regulating itself?
Yeah its actually quite common for doors to be jammed in a car crash. That's why the ambulance carries a hammer.
Can anyone offer a good faith explanation of why they thought electronically controlled doors would be a good design choice?
But have you considered how much cheaper they are to make? 🤔
Because American consumers are obsessed with pointless gadgetry, and bullshit sells cars.
I hate electronics in cars.
Efi and abs. Thats all anyone needs. Roll downs, manual, no screen, no digital gauge shit.
Sadly thats illegal to build now. And why cars cost so much.
I don't mind electronics out of hand, but I don't want my car to automatically be a data source for the manufacturer and remote control should be impossible, or at the very least something the owner can disable.
Unfortunately, neither is true of my 2019 Chevy Volt. Maybe my next EV.
Electric windows are fine. And digital gauges are also fine... after all, they are all fed by the computer anyway. And you cant get away from the ECU because its require to meet emission regulations. And a display screen is nice to show more information about the car thats not possible otherwise... but all the infotainment crap... yeah that nonsense can go.
Hey, don't blame it on the customers. Blame it on the developers competing with each other to constantly keep innovating new ideas to one-up each other. And then they force these new technologies onto the customers because there are no other options, even if older models were more logical & functional.
Are all American EV cars designed to lock doors like that?
Of course not.
It's not just American consumers these electric vehicles and many like them are popular the world round.
Moreover, how long will it take for US auto regulators to ban them the way China already has?
That article states just this month that they are looking at banning them not that they already have banned them. Do you have information that they did already ban them?
but non-standard retractable door handles are popular on a variety of EVs and other tech-forward cars sold in markets around the glob
Also after reading over the full article I can't get over this one sentence right here....
On NPR they were saying it's pretty much a done deal to ban them by 2027 but I just grabbed the first link I came across. Also tbf they weren't excluding you from having electronic openers, they just were requiring them to have mechanical backups.
cool factor first
safety third
but first, the goddamn news
Pretty sure it's unironically just that it looks futuristic and is cheaper or something. It's one of those things where there's not too much to it, it's just a dumb design.
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Standards exist for a reason. Sometimes low(er)-tech is better and you don't need to reinvent the wheel.
I did nazi that coming woaaOOOOOOoooohhhhh flappy arms :O
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