Exterior Door Handles

Thank you for bringing this up. I was thinking the same thing, such as simple thing as the door handles could be this magnificent car's Achille's heel...

I talked a T employee that confirmed that the door handles on the betas did indeed not work (at least not well) and that was why the assistants opened the doors from the inside. "They don't want to show off a feature if it doesn't work that well." We also talked about how the door handles take a brief moment to extend and that many (like me) sometime just want to yank the door open. The extending door handle may look cool at first, but I think it may get old real fast. There are ways to make door handles flush with the body without this.

I offered the opinion that the door handles were a bit too much eye-candy, to which I heard "Elon likes eye-candy".

I've gone from negative to neutral on the touch-screen, but the door-handles... nope, they still have to sell me on that.

I want the door handles to be color matched to the doors...totally camouflaged, would be very cool.

Another thing to consider with door handles is fingerprints. Especially if you have the black paint. You have to put your hand on something to close the door and if it's the door itself, then it looks rather yucky pretty quickly with a black car. I'm hoping the door handles have a satin type finish on them.

I looked at the "rounded" flush door handles they had on the alpha on the factory floor (I believe the were sourced from another manufacturer). These were spring loaded such that when you pressed on the front of the handle the rear part extended.

I hope the final has the same "manual" mode.

The door handles on the alpha are from an Aston Martin.