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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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You're thinking of the door latch, not the door lock.
Again, there is no physical locking mechanism. That's what's different from any other cars in history.
The mechanical latch is on the interior of the vehicle, thus bypassing any "locking" methods. You can't do the same on the exterior.
The lock is what prevents the latch from unlatching without some authentication mechanism present. Whether it's a software lock or a physical lock is irrelevant.
And you can absolutely do the same on the exterior: add a physical lock that interacts with the latch. That's basically how every other car works. Basically, there's a motor to release the latch for electronic locks, and the key and handle intact with the latch directly. There's no reason Tesla cars couldn't satisfy that interaction. They could even have the handle pull charge a small microcontroller that scans the key card if they really don't want a purely mechanical lock for some reason.
No, you can't. Because, again, there is no method available to lock and unlock the door.
No it is not. If you want mechanical door handles, you also need mechanical door locks. A computer cannot unlock a mechanical door handle without a mechanical door lock mechanism. Adding a mechanical door lock means rethinking the entirety of the passenger entry system, as they currently function completely differently, as I've described above.
Again, that is not how this car works.
I think you've lost the topic of this conversation. The topic is not that it's impossible. It's that it's "harder than it sounds".
We are going round and round here and I keep repeating myself over and over but I'm clearly not getting through to you so I'm gonna call it a day.
The JUST SAID there already exists a manual override. Just make it accessible from the exterior. Problem solved. Shut the fuck up.