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[–] [email protected] 516 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (60 children)

Judkins said that after the finger test, a lead cybertruck engineer at Tesla said he did the video wrong.

The engineer told him the frunk increases in pressure every single time it closes and detects resistance, Judkins said. It's going to assume you want to close the frunk and maybe something like a bag is getting in the way, which would make it close harder.

Are you kidding me? You did the test wrong on a safety critical feature? No you dumbass engineer, you designed it wrong. Why in the holy fuck would you make a safety critical algorithm keep applying more pressure on subsequent attempts??? That's literally the opposite of what you do for safety.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (17 children)

I know I'm old school and all that, but why do people want to pay for automatically closing doors of any kind? Automatic opening of cargo spaces I get, if you have your bags full of hands or whatever, but once you put the stuff in there... Seem like such an incredibly unnecessary and costly feature, that also have a high chance of failing in the future. I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

Good question. My wife's RAV4 has a rear door that will only close if you press a button. You can't close it manually. Furthermore, it's on the door while it's open and my five foot tall wife can barely reach it. It's ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t your wife have a hard time closing it manually too then?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You know, that's true and it didn't even occur to me. I guess she just wouldn't have bought it? (I would have been fine with that, I hate SUVs, even hybrids.)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We've got a 2019 Rav and I can't remember how, but you can adjust the height that the door opens to by some series of button pushes. We had to lower it so that it doesn't hit the frame of the garage door when opening it inside the garage. Maybe just adjust it so that it doesn't open all the way and it'll be easier for her to reach the button?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'll let her know about that. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do I set the height on my vehicle's adjustable power liftgate?

When the liftgate reaches the desired height, push the rear liftgate close-button once (button is located on the doorjamb of the rear liftgate, and only accessible when the liftgate is open). Press and hold the button until it beeps 4 times. Click here to view a video.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I actually sell these. You can manually lower the door to the height that works comfortably, then hold the automatic door button down for about 3 seconds. That should program the door to a new maximum height.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

On older Toyotas the rear door has a strap inside that hangs down for people to grab onto and pull the door down to close.

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