- cross-posted to:
- automotive@discuss.tchncs.de
- cross-posted to:
- automotive@discuss.tchncs.de
China will ban retractable car handles beginning Jan. 1, 2027
Under the proposed rules, vehicles weighing less than 3.5 tons must be equipped with interior and exterior car door handles that include a mechanical emergency opening function. The requirement is intended to ensure doors can be opened during power failures or after collisions.
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Sounds sensible to me.
It’s weird seeing a government regulate something for the betterment of society and its citizens. I didn’t know that happened anymore.
Are you a tankie /s
Communist China Gov. also banned Human Rights Layers!
Wake-up!
Why the limit of 3.5 tons?
I guess vehicles above that weight aren’t considers ‘cars’
In Singapore you can only drive a vehicles of 3,000KG or less with a car driving licence.
I suppose it’s similar in China
I believe it could’ve come from the same root, probably USSR. Russia too has a 3,5 tons line to divide between driving licenses’ tiers.
Separate regulations for different vehicle classes
The Chinese? The goddanm Chinese figured this out first? This is a new low for the state of regulations in the EU.
The good place where Jason's the one
Well done China. Thank you for the influence this will have on car makers and regulators worldwide.
Our new Equinox EV has the retractable handles, but you can always push in on the pivot side to reveal the handle. This allows the doors to open normally when the handle can’t be retracted.
God someone should ban that shit, i fucking hate how janky handles are now. Why make something so much worse for no benefit???
Not sure why this would be a ban as long as they can be manually manipulated while “closed”. Push/pop kinda deal.
Yeah, thats the problem. Several car makers can’t be manually manipulated when closed, especially when the battery is disconnected.
Right, which is why I’m surprised the solution is posited as “no more recessed door handles” rather than “failsafe mechanical mechanism”. Either something is missing here, there was a failure of imagination from the author, or it was disingenuous framing.
