Tesla’s door handle design is infamous, neat, foolish and dangerous. Customers have been saying that for years. After a large number of damaged reports, the company can finally do anything about it.
On September 10, Bloomberg published a report that includes the discovery of more than 140 consumer complaints of Tesla, “Tesla’s doors, or not to be unimaginated since 2018.” Scenarios participating in the scenarios, which are unable to open the doors inside passengers in a few examples.
Five days later, the National Highways Traffic Safety Department (NHTSA) official investigation in the door-to-opening mechanisms of Tesla, with reference to 9 similar complaints from the model Y owners. And on September 17, Tesla design head Franz Von Holzhausen briefed Bloomberg Warm pursuit! The company is actively working in redesigning the door-to-opening mechanisms to facilitate the operation of “in the case of panic.”
The issue of Tesla’s doors goes to a fundamental design defect: Electronic and mechanical door-to-opening systems are completely separate in the company’s vehicles. This means that everything is working, passengers and doors to electronically. However, if the electronic system falls below for any reason, passengers must trust the mechanical release system instead of a completely different area of the vehicle. In case of emergency, it is a control that can lead to dangerous consequences.
Why Tesla’s doors are an example of bad design
Tesla’s doors, which combine the handles installed in combination with the car, have been criticizing the tendency to completely frozen in the winter weather. However, more information has been revealed.
On October 24, 2024, four friends were killed in the Tesla model, in Toronto and a fireplace in Tesla in a fire. The reports stopped the electrical mechanism of the car after the accident and prevented the occupiers’ vehicle. Like Fast company At this time, as in all Tesla cars, it was primarily reported as in electronic control. If this fails, the next best choice is a small graduation mechanisms between the door and door handle, a sandwich between passengers and door handles that cannot get acquainted with the model instruction.
Tesla’s hand release is placed differently depending on the vehicle model. In the model s, for example, the hand-released cables are located below the carpet in front of the rear seats. Bloomberg’s investigation also found that the TESLA was not released for the back doors for some of the most traded vehicles. This was sold in the 3rd versions of 3 models sold until 2023, as well as between 2020 and 2024.
The new investigation of the NHTSA emphasizes that this is not the main concern that this is a clear management system. According to the report, the agency received nine car owners (VOQ) from the owners of the 2021 TESLA model YS. The most referral scenarios are engaged in outgoing the driver’s seat to find a child in the back seat before driving a child or not only open the doors to access the vehicle. These VBS quarters, parents referred to the break of a window to resend the car.
According to the initial glance, NHTSA noted that these situations were not given a low-tension battery warning and before the incident, there are no enough tensions to electronically open their doors.
“Although the Tesla vehicles are released inside the cabin, the driver of a vehicle,” Sings NHTSA’s report, “is emergency, such as emergencies, such as children entering a hot vehicle.”
How does Tesla plan to solve the problem
Now it seems that Tesla does not intend to do anything about the wrong doors. Von Holzhausen explained Warm pursuit! The company is working on “combining” the functions of mechanical and electronic doors in vehicles, probably the electronic system of electronic systems to bring more intuitive.
“So at the moment, he said that you are in panic, the muscle memory is there to go to what you know,” said Von Holzhausen. “You just take the arm a little further and you have a mechanical release.”
Von Holzhausen did not share more information about when these changes could open and respond immediately Fast companyRequest to comment on what the new systems look like in vehicles.