Aside from the safety issues of the doors they are just super gimmicky. Lincoln throws gull wings on a concept they get trashed. Tesla puts some on a production car and they have quality issues and they still are hailed as the best thing ever.

Tesla doesn’t sell to typical consumers, it sells to evangelists. That’s why they get away with selling a sub-par vehicle for six figures. These cars are about virtue-signaling, not function.

““I am totally willing to overlook the issues if Tesla fixes it.” She went on to say that that if she had similar issues with her Cadillac Escalade, she “would be furious.””

Of course the owners (and the fanboys on this site) brush these things off like nothing. But if this were any other automaker, the Internet wild be alit with complaints. Shows you how blindly these people follow Tesla. While the other problems aren't that serious, the windshield and AutoPilot are scary. And the doors…

I like the idea of using the long tube. don’t have to worry about pumping and then sucking air back in.

More from the article, which makes the write up seem far less effective:

This is surprising, considering the last Mustang we sent them was received with decidedly less enthusiasm.

Does the phrase “Reserve not met” have any meaning to you?

Well... there goes all your taste credibility.

In a rush to get to market, they won’t be ready for launch. Tesla will make them available as downloadable content for the appropriate season.

Are you sure Mexico has cheap enough labor for a Trump factory?

I have a feeling Tesla will go to a subscription model for access to the SuperCharger network on the lower-priced cars. Something like a $500 fee at the time of sale, and then $5 - $10 per SuperCharger use.

Of course adapters would work. Every Tesla vehicle coming off the assembly is design to use Chademo for instance. Owners just have to by a $450 adapter. Other carmakers just have to make adapters to use Tesla’s superchargers in the same manner that Tesla support other standards.

Once again, though, I’m not saying they’ve won the value game. I’m saying they won the marketing game. They’re compared to Apple all the time, and this is accurate. Apple stuff is super overpriced, deeply unreliable, and stuffy in its propriety. But it sells like mad.

but if the Model 3 is fully autonomous maybe it may actually be better for the blind :)

Marie Curie? (Physics and Chemistry)

...or by temporarily shifting delivery priorities to other regions for a few weeks. If demand is high enough around the world, they could do this without impacting global delivery numbers. And make a few people in Australia and China very happy. :)

I managed to find a picture of the purported “real” steering system. You saw it first here on Kinjalopnik.

Wait until you see the real steering controls and system for the 3. It feels like a spaceship.

Real interior will look like this: