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What is up with car door handles these days?

by edward on 4/6/25, 3:20 PM with 10 comments

  • by mystified5016 on 4/6/25, 7:14 PM

    This article gives an entire line to the subject of the title. It's mentioned almost in passing.

    The rest of the writing is just generic railing at the general state of things with a side of Musk whinging.

    Not an invalid take, I guess, but I was interested in the door handles.

  • by marcusb on 4/6/25, 3:41 PM

    Customers frequently want two conflicting things: change and stability.

    In enterprise software sales, a lot of time and energy get wasted arguing about features the customer will never use. Post deployment, those same people will scream bloody murder about how unstable the products are and how the vendors just can’t do anything right.

    Similarly, I think if car makers set out to incrementally improve their product a few percent a year, nobody would buy it. It would be boring. Outdated.

    People - like the author of this article - claim they want stability. But, I’m here to tell you that what they buy is change.