EV Stupidity Checklist
The article critiques modern electric vehicle (EV) designs, arguing that they often sacrifice functionality and safety for aesthetics. It highlights specific design flaws, such as unreliable electronic door mechanisms and the overuse of touch screens. The author provides a checklist for car designers to improve usability and reliability in both EVs and traditional vehicles.
- ▪Modern EVs often replace reliable features with less functional designs.
- ▪Touch screens, while cost-effective, have proven unpopular and can compromise safety.
- ▪The article suggests a checklist for car designers to enhance usability and reliability in vehicles.
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Automobiles have been around for well over a century. During that time, we’ve gotten pretty good at designing and building their basic components and controls: seats, doors, pedals, steering wheels, mirrors, etc. But when today’s automakers decide to make an electric vehicle (EV), they seemingly forget much of what they once knew, creating new versions of features that are objectively, obviously worse than the time-tested designs they replace. When Tesla ushered in the modern EV era in the early 2000s, some of these changes made sense, at least from a marketing perspective.
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