• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    I don’t see how prospective car buyers can see shit like that and not see it as indicative of much larger design issues lurking under the hood.

    Like, how do you see that and not immediately question the safety concerns of adding additional steps to escape the vehicle if there is an accident and the electric door loses power? How do you from there not question what other poor design decisions may have been made if something so obvious got through? Do people just not think about the things they’re spending 10s of thousands of dollars on?

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      A lot of prospective car buyers like the thing based on the few details they interact with during a test drive and don’t think any further ahead, just like with everything else in their lives.

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      I think that most people just don’t think about such details. Personally I wouldn’t. I’d think about the ergonomics of the unlock mechanism when it works as intended, which sucks, by the way.

      But I wouldn’t really think about safety. It’s not my job. I would assume the industrial designer did their job, and that the regulator did theirs.