Tesla has earned a reputation for itself as a maker of a technologically advanced electric vehicles. However, sometimes futuristic technology conflicts with current understandings of how vehicles work. Such has been the case recently with its EVs’ doors.
With flush, retracting door handles on the outside, simple buttons on the inside, and electrically operated latches, feel advanced from the moment you approach them. When the battery on one of its vehicles dies, these systems can stop working, though.to die. Earlier this month, Arizona’s Rick Meggison said he became trapped in hundred-degree heat after he became unable to operate the doors of his Tesla in the normal fashion.