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I imagine there would be a gigantic list of safety concerns for self-closing doors.
Minivans have had self-closing doors for decades bro
I've seen cars with self-closing doors though. Also I'm not sure where the safety consideration would come in since we have self closing building doors right now and no one seems to get cut in half by those.
They already exist though? There are a bunch of EVs with servos in their doors. You can still overpower it just like you can an auto closing trunk
edit: and they can also have proximity sensors, i know cadillac does that and their implementation is hyper vigilant, will stop the front door even if you're next to the pillar
Eh, we already have self closing trunks. As long as they are programmed correctly (not by Tesla) they sense resistance and stop.
I don't think programming is a problem, auto closing trunks and doors aren't strong enough. You can test that on any self closing trunk door, it will sound and feel awful but they're not strong at all.
They absolutely are strong enough to break fingers. The Tesla dumpster is famous for cutting into fingers with the self closing trunk
Tesla isn't a good example of how anything is done in the industry, but rather of how not to do it.
I don't doubt Tesla's doors are designed to mutilate their customers, much like they're designed to trap them inside in the event of a fire, probably because Musk's ketamine addled brain though it'd be funny, but that's not how any other company would do it, even if only because because lawsuits cost money and weaker locks are cheaper.
Nothing a slipping clutch won't fix. There already are self-closing doors everywhere. Maybe not in cars but in all sorts of vehicles and everywhere in buildings.