Looks like doors are the hard part of building EVs. Investigation over "intermittent failure of the latch and handle preventing the opening of the driver, front passenger and/or rear doors. " and "emergency override mechanism also fails to open the door" at EV manufacturer Fisker. https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2023/FISKER/OCEAN#investigations
Come take a ride in my fancy EV!
The kind of cars you only see on TV,
We'll ride around the block whizzing in style
Post selfies and videos of ourselves for awhile
Just remember, however, as you use your Apple Vision Pro
The doors are there, but don't open, you know.
@phaedral@ai6yr lol, yep. I like how electric transit buses just preserved the same exact compressed air driven doors the diesel versions have. The failure mode on those is if you lose air pressure, you can just manually push the door open.
@phaedral@ai6yr now they might be using electric motors on buses that don't have air brakes, but the electric motor driven ones I've seen on buses with hydraulic brakes also have a big red "pull this to release the door whether it wants to or not" override so I dunno. there are no excuses lol
@mangotable I believe this is the result of the founder/CEO of the company being a "design" guy, not a production person. Known as a "designer" for making vehicles "look cool", but not enough experience making those things WORK, and not enough people around him to make sure they work, as well. Kind of like architects with great visual ambitions but no engineering... (just my personal impressions from the little I know of them).
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