Agreed. Plus the choices were never electrically actuated Vs. standard, plenty of vehicles before Tesla had flush fully mechanical doorhandles that reduced the drag coefficient.

Tesla did it to be different, futuristic, and to show off. Then plenty of other electric vehicle manufacturers copied. Even ignoring the safety issues, these things had reliability problems since almost inception and could be frozen shut in the winter.

Between the door handles, removing the turn signal stalk, removing the wiper stalk, non-round non-drive-by-wire wheel, and now putting the shifter in the ceiling, Tesla has made a lot of unforced errors to try to stand out.

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triceratops 10 hours ago | parent [-]

> now putting the shifter in the ceiling

They what?! And people are still buying these things? This is the most valuable automaker in the world?

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mebizzle 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because you don't need to use that shifter regularly; you shift gears on the screen in that car and they have capacitive buttons near the caution lights on the ceiling as a redundant backup.

	▲	triceratops 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> you shift gears on the screen in that car You're not helping bro. I'm literally crying right now what even is this car?

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nemomarx 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

their profits are pretty normal, the stock is clearly more stock in musk himself than in the car company