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The reason to eliminate door handles that Tesla and others typically give is aerodynamic efficiency. Granted there are other bigger aerodynamic problems. gestures at the rest of the fucking truck
That's just nonsense justification they came up with after the fact. Ferraris have door handles, so clearly they're not much of an issue.
Anyway the car isn't going to exceed 80 miles an hour anyways so aerodynamics barely comes into it.
The improvement removing the handles is there, but negligible. Especially considering the safety implications. Didn't China ban flush door handles for safety reasons?
For internal door handles?
I thought they did have internal door handles but they're hidden away. The problem is often they're difficult to get to even when the car is completely intact.
When it comes to driving a self-propelled crematorium, I'd primarily be concerned about the internal door handles.
Everything about a Tesla interior is cost-savings masquerading as innovation. Actually most of these touch screen focused modern cars. It’s cheaper to produce than tactile buttons.
I was thinking of the external ones which aren't default exposed
That was always Musk bullshit. Flush mechanical handles were a thing in the 70s.