Check Out How Much Faster The Tesla Model X's Falcon Wing Doors Open After An Update
While the headline news from Tesla’s latest over-the-air update concerned Autopilot updates, for Model X users it actually included a very practical change. We’re talking about those fancy ‘Falcon Wings’, and while the Model X has come under attack for these incredibly complicated doors, they do at least open and close quicker now post-update.
As demonstrated in the video above, they now open 1.5sec quicker, closing an even more significant 2.2sec faster. You’re looking at a 22 and 26 per cent reduction in operation time respectively, which your average Model X owner will no doubt appreciate if it’s chucking it down with rain when they get back to their car.
Video via Motor1
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Is it just me, that feels a certain eeriness, knowing these sort of cars (Teslas, and ultimately most normal cars in the near future) can change capabilities and attributes with a simple update, as if it was a phone?
I still don’t get the whole car update thing. Knowing my luck, I’d get in, close the door, turn the key and I’ll just get beeping and a message on a screen saying that my car needs an update. Knowing the internet speed where I am, I’d have to leave that updating at home and bring a different car as it will take absolutely ages. No thanks, I’d rather have carburetors, window winders, a cassette player and no air conditioning than a car that will need to download an update every time I go to use it before it’ll work
Still a gimmick for Tesla hype imo. Sliding doors are better.
Most pointless doors ever made. Marketing gimic.
meh, make it open in 0.06 seconds and sit on top of it
When the guy who built Ludicrous speed got tasked with fixing the doors
We should make Teslas open source!
So in the case of a roll over the doors cant open and the windows are smashed did they implement explosives like the gull wing merc?
I wonder how a Le Mans start would turn out if they had these…
“I do like opening my own doors me” But that’s something a peasant would say.