And we as consumers should also take responsibility and simply not buy these vehicles.

The good news is that at least as it pertains to getting rid of physical controls, automakers have largely learned their lesson and are trying to go back as fast as reasonably possible (while also trying to balance recouping the tooling costs from fewer buttons). VW was heavily heavily criticized and is bringing it all back.

I’m confident that if consumer sentiment starts to skew one way regarding electronic door handles, we will also see a reversal. What is unfortunate now is that other automakers are following the lead that Tesla set. Tesla essentially proved one type of electronic door and it is engineered in such a way to be cheap and reliable enough. I’m confident that if engineers are given the space to really innovate and explore ideas, they can find something that is both better mechanically while remaining highly aerodynamic.

> VW was heavily heavily criticized and is bringing it all back.

ID.BUZZ with physical controls would be my dream car, no joke.

Currently the main issues for me are the shitty touch buttons and underpowered heater (it's the same as in the ID.4, which has like 30% of the interior volume of the BUZZ...)

At least Tesla does have a very easily accessible button to manually open the door

Didn't they only add those after losing a lawsuit?

And, I swear I heard about another one for cyber trucks, but with the vitriol surrounding them I'm not even going to try and find it.

I have no idea, don’t own a Tesla and haven’t been in one that often.

Looks like some models might have the manual door release switch easily accessible in the front but not in the back, about what you’d expect from Tesla.

At least the fact that they have a decent solution shows that there’s no reason this has to be a problem for electric doors.