Chinese Regulators May Kill Retractable Car Door Handles That Never Should Have Existed

https://hackaday.com/2025/11/26/chinese-regulators-may-kill-retractable-car-door-handles-that-never-should-have-existed/

Headlights. Indicators. Trunk releases. Seatbelts. Airbags. Just about any part of a car you can think of is governed by a long and complicated government regulation. It’s all about safety, …read more

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practisevoodoo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d

How about door locks as well? My brother recently had an issue with a hospital car park, a dead battery and the total impossibility of locking the car.
You could lock the driver door with the physical key, but there was no way to lock any of the other door without the battery. Just a massive step back from the little pop-up-pressable-thingy or latch near the handle of older models