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New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds (www.wired.com)
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[–] 62 points 11 months ago (28 children)

I’m calling corpo lobbied bullshit. 2 years is enough time to put a normal door handle on your car.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (15 children)

    Cars are designed up to 5 years in advance. Usually the last 2 years before production is dedicated to endurance testing.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Tesla doesn't do any of that, nor crash testing

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    A quick search says they do crash testing, is this bullshit?

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago* (7 children)

    Of course they do crash testing, you can go watch videos of it if you want. That's just a bot, or someone who knows fuck all. Their cars are always top ranked in crash saftey.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    You mean like that cybertruck shit made of rusting "stainless" steel, with no crumple zone and a body that reflects the sun in other drivers eyes?

    Yeah, doubt it. They aren't even legal in Europe because of safety.

    Who told you that? Elmo?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    Lol dude, the cybertruck is a 5 star rated vehicle.

    https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2025/TESLA/CYBERTRUCK%252520(ALL%252520VARIANTS)/PU%25252FCC/AWD%252520Later%252520Release#detailed-safety-tech-results

    It's the one of the safest trucks for occupants in crashes ever built.

    Edit: Just to add, that they also keep updating based on results from saftey agencies. The CT initially scored a 5 for driver and 4 for front passenger, but it has been updated to now to be 5/5.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Top ranked for the people inside the cars. Not so safe for the people mining the material to replace cars that get totaled, etc. but most people don't give enough of a fuck to count anyone but the occupants of the car

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Won't catch me dead driving a tesla but obviously they test safety in order to pass regulations lol

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I mean.. if they didn't test their cars, they really must have the best engineers in the world, being able to go from just engineering plans to getting a 5 star saftey rating at all the agencies. Those engineers would be worth their weight in gold lol.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    So how do they deal with routine and unexpected defects that every manufacturer deals with for every model?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Well, it was found that water pools in the chassis of the Cybertruck, corroding it. They dealt with this by telling consumers not to get it wet and make taking it through a carwash void the warrantee.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    They don't have to redesign an entire car, just the internal parts of a door that are related to a handle, that in the past they made work mechanically btw, so no, 2 years is more than enough to redesign and start implementing it

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  • [+] -19 points 11 months ago (10 children)
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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Redesigning the handle by 2027 is stupid easy. I have an masters in mechanical engineering, this could be done with mostly off the shelf parts. Tesla is being a bitch like normal.

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  • [–] -5 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Your skill doesn't translate into supply chain management, testing timelines, manufacturing setups, all that. Dad was a civil engineer. Didn't mean he could run a road laying company.

    Shit. Forgot where I was. My post is sucking Elon's dick and excusing Tesla for fuck ups.

    FFS, the issues I'm citing are in the article and they're not quotes from Tesla. Lay off the fucking witch hunt.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I work in supply chain and manufacturing now lol. Tesla is a major fuck up of a company.

    I worked with some of their engineers after they left and they aren't very bright.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    so in your mind, what happens when a recall occurs and some defective part is replaced with another part? do you think they run these replacements through all your supply chain management testing setups all that huh?

    or they don't replace the defects?

    ?

    no, this happens all the time. it allows manufacturers to respond to systems that didn't age well, or didn't stand up to public users, or children, or was unsafe in a way that didn't present itself during testing. these things happen. manufacturers make adjustments, replace parts, change software, and put it back out on the road.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Shit. Forgot where I was. My post is sucking Elon’s dick and excusing Tesla for fuck ups.

    Unironically yes, you're all over this story flooding the zone with shit to try discrediting the whole thing, despite having nothing of substance to offer beyond asserting that nobody knows anything except for you and Elon.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    No dude, your post acts like this couldn't be anticipated, never mind reported on for years.

    Seriously, how many models did Tesla need to figure this out for? They didn't have a plan 2 years ago?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    I read the article, and I’m calling bullshit on the excuses they’re putting up. The fact that they usually prefer a five year cycle, does not mean that it’s difficult to change the handles on the doors in two years if you need to.

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