Lift type handles are very easy for bears to open. A bear got into my wife's car and got out a bag of bran for her horse just the night before last. I have an older truck with old school push button handles. I've never had a bear figure out push buttons....>
Same goes for push down button or lever front door handles. Pretty easy for a bear to end up in your kitchen compared to a regular knob that has to be gripped and turned.
Thanks. I had to look it up, but I like learning new terms. Much of my entire career as a designer/builder has been based on my own experience with, and ability to imagine "edge cases". I've alway had the unique ability to foresee problems before they occur and design around them.
I don't have grizzlies, but I also don't live where I have to lock my cars due to humans either. Any great new idea is going to have it's own pitfalls. We're all just the guinea pigs who have to figure them all out and respond with our $. People liked rubber tires over wagon wheels, now we get flats
A few years ago, I test drove a Tesla Model Y. I opened the door from the inside with the obvious handle and the car started screaming at me. Apparently the handle is only for emergency use and has a chance of breaking the car. One of many red flags that'll keep me from ever buying a Tesla.
That hasn't been a thing since 2020. Teslas (and others) don't have framed windows - it's safer & better for manufacturing - but the window needs to lower so it doesn't hit the seal. Tesla's manual latch used to not move the window, so it warned, but software update changed that.
Glad to hear they fixed that particular issue. However, that it was necessary to fix demonstrated a fundamental design miss to me. Combined with other ergonomic and user interface issues, I still consider that drive to be top 2 worst driving experiences I've ever had. The other was a rental Hyundai.
I don't know why the manual lever didn't drop the window in the first place - perhaps more testing would show people pulling the lever more often than they thought? I had this experience too, and didn't like driving it either. Anyway, they iterate and fix this stuff. Today top 1.
If your door requires a window frame your car is poorly designed. I get that we're used to poorly designed cars all around, software update fixed the poor design being talked about here years ago though.
As I understand it the safety issue with window frames is they support the window/seal, but don't do much to protect passengers. Window frame takes space / metal that could be floor to roof pillars instead. The design is classic, but there's a different way.
Ya seriously why are we looking for a solution where no problems exist?
We had two kinds of mechanical ones and they were both perfect.. we had that one where you push the button in and the other where you pull the whole handle and they were both great... wtf are we doing here people?
My last car had this problem. The first time my kids got in the car it trapped them in it because they didn’t hit the buttons just right and the doors got stuck half closed half open. Their first two experiences with that car both made them cry for that and phantom braking. Sold it after a year.
I swear it was the primary antitheft protection on TVRs.
You had to stick your finger in a woodpecker’s hole and wiggle it twice clockwise, once anticlockwise, then clockwise again before the doors would open.
Or something.
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he should focus on his door locking problems
It's a gift.
please i just want to change the tunes without risking vehicular manslaughter
We had two kinds of mechanical ones and they were both perfect.. we had that one where you push the button in and the other where you pull the whole handle and they were both great... wtf are we doing here people?
sorry you don't like it but those are the facts
What are you driving?
You had to stick your finger in a woodpecker’s hole and wiggle it twice clockwise, once anticlockwise, then clockwise again before the doors would open.
Or something.