Yeah I’m not shocked the major car company with the least amount of experience in mechanical engineering had that issue.

Give that to a team of 90’s Honda engineers and they’d have it done by lunch with a price tag a 1/3rd of the Tesla mechanism.

Is it really that hard to make one of those recessed handles with a mechanical linkage instead of an electric one?

Seems like the real issue is the electric door latch itself, not the style of handle.

I think having an electric popper on top of an mechanical door latch (actual door handles are standard mechanic, but there’s solenoid that can actuate them independently) is okay if you can find an actual usecase.

I mean sure still stupid but at least it isn’t dangerous.

Same way electric locks have worked for the past 30 years on cars.

An old civic might be able to unlock from a key fob, but that’s only an electronically controlled solenoid controlling a lock which is mechanical in nature, and who’s main user-accessible interaction point is mechanically linked to the lock.