China is to ban hidden door handles on cars. Instead, vehicle doors must have a mechanical release function, inside and outside. The purpose is to make cars safer after electric vehicle accidents where electronic doors reportedly failed to operate and trapped passengers inside. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.

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Another reason not to buy a #Tesla #Cybertruck: they are poorly made.

As videos in this story show, the door strikers were not fastened properly to the car, causing one of this car’s rear doors to swing open on a highway on-ramp. The door happened to be the one next to their baby in a car seat.

The bolts on the striker were very obviously not torqued correctly. How this level of obvious error escaped the manufacturing/quality control floor is unknown, but I suspect it’s because the Cybertruck was poorly designed to begin with, and also because Tesla cut corners everywhere during their manufacturing process to save money.

Tesla knew that this defect was quite damning, so they offered to buy back the #Wankpanzer, in return for the owner promising not to sue.

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A Cybertruck door latch failed as an Oakland dad drove his infant onto a highway

Tesla headquarters quickly produced a buy-back offer. A second federal complaint about the latch failure was filed this month.

^{Jose Fermoso (The Oaklandside)}