Ogre
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Most things with Tesla seem to start with reducing weight, cost, or drag (preferably all three!).Honestly the no handle thing may be one of the deal breakers for me. I wonder if it has anything to do with the thick stainless and trying to get a waterproof handle assembly in there. I work a lot around my truck and I often need to get in my unlocked truck without having the keys on me. And I often walk by my truck with my keys in me and I don’t want the foot popping open all the time. A lot of people are going to be doing more than driving this truck back and forth to their office parking lot every day. A lot of truck owners work out of their truck. This handleless FOB idea is really not going to be good IMO.
The big question in my eyes are how do you control this? If I walk up to the car it opens, but my car is parked out in front of my house, is it going to pop open every time I walk past it? Do the passenger doors pop open when someone approaches on that side?
I've mostly come around to this idea, but just trying to sort out how it would work. If it works when you just touch the door, that seems like it would be more convenient than a door latch, but the demo showed it opening for him on approach.
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