Tesla is replacing its flush door handles for the Chinese market

18 September 2025
Tesla's flush door handles are raising safety concerns all over the world.

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  • cometguy

I think that North American and European regulators missed the boat years ago in not banning receding/electronic door handles. It's not too late: they should ban them now on all new cars, and require only regular mechanical door handles that do not recede or into the door frame. The only possible benefit of receding door handles are to prevent carjackings; they do not provide any reasonable level of aerodynamic benefit for fuel economy.

  • O

Cue massive lawsuits in the US and Europe ... including from families of people who burned to death or died from smoke inhalation due to emergency services or first responders not being able to open the unpowered (but not stuck) doors from the outside.

  • Anonymous

Added stalk, replacing handle, now one more thing left.....add back the LIDAR. Sometimes old is gold.

  • regulatory fail

Hate the backdoor emergency releases.

  • Anonymous

free retrofit (recall)

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