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-8 points

Teslas need to crack the windows before you open the door, that’s why they complicate the door release. If you don’t give the computer a moment to move the window before the door opens you can damage things.

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27 points

You keep pointing out the design flaw, but I think we are aware that its a flawed design.

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19 points

Tesla isn’t the only manufacturer of doors with frameless windows. They are the only ones I know of who have electric-only door latches.

The computer can have the window cracked before the handle is fully pulled. And if it fails to do so, the door opens anyway.

A better solution is a fucking window frame.

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8 points

My car has frameless windows. But they don’t need the window to be in any particular place. Literally 100% up or down, and the door works fine. I don’t understand why they designed cars that have this problem.

But yeah, framed windows work great too.

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Thank you for giving the explanation, but I think you’re getting flamed for it because it sounds like you’re saying that decision makes sense.

They introduced the design constraint. They can remove it, or work around it mechanically. They chose not to, and instead made a death-trap on purpose. I’m sure they had their reasons at the time, but they are by definition bad reasons if they led to this outcome.

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5 points

He’s getting flamed because convertibles have been doing frameless door windows forever with manual overrides. It’s not something super special Tesla has done. Musk just doesn’t want to spend the extra money doing it right.

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They chose not to, and instead made a death-trap on purpose

I don’t think it’s a death-trap “on purpose,” but it’s def a death-trap by negligence. Which is still bad. Very very bad.

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7 points

“They had to work around a shitty design flaw with another flaw.”

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7 points

Didn’t bmw have this in the 90s…?

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Yep, people who don’t know cars arguing about car stuff, I hate it.

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Those cars still had door handles.

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2 points

Why is that obvious design flaw relevant?

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So just like any convertible?

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