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Author Topic: Ridiculously Complicated Tesla Door Handle  (Read 2763 times)

Offline cosworth151

Ridiculously Complicated Tesla Door Handle
« on: December 22, 2017, 09:07:38 PM »
Here's a video on the Tesla's outside door handle. It's a very complicated (and, I would guess, very expensive) mechanism that doesn't perform any useful function any better than the ones on my 1961 Falcon station wagon did.  :confused: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=YfJFPiE2-Bc


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Offline Jericoke

Re: Ridiculously Complicated Tesla Door Handle
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2017, 02:20:03 PM »
Of course it performs a useful function:  it allows Tesla to overinvest in engineers so they always have teams with competing ideas on how to make their products better where it counts.  If making a $500 door handle leads to shaving $3000 off the drive train, then that's a very good investment.

The guy told to make a $0.30 lever is going to leave for another company instead of proving he should work on the ERS

Offline Scott

Re: Ridiculously Complicated Tesla Door Handle
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2017, 07:53:59 PM »
Just took all the magic out of those doorhandles for me...I thought they were wild, now they are just a waste of plastic and electrical wiring.  :crazy: :crazy:
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