- China will ban retractable EV door handles on new vehicles starting January 2027.
- Mechanical emergency releases will be mandatory for both interior and exterior door handles.
- Tesla and other automakers must redesign handles to meet new safety standards.
IMO the problem in that type of situation still boils down to capitalism. Contracts given to whoever undersells the most or whoever has a personal relationship with whoever is giving the contact out. Everyone is so goldfish-brained and reactionary re:politics politicos are more worried about a budget tagline than they are excited to provide new infrastructure.
I work for an engineering consulting firm and we constantly have to document why we’re worth the price when there’s no-PPE 2-bit operations who fabricate data telling clients they can do the same work with one guy and a hand drill.
The main project I work on has high (financial) consequences if shit is fucked up so the client doesn’t need a ton of convincing to renew our contracts but that doesn’t stop them from hard negotiating every 5 years so they can pump their quarterly reports or whatever.
All that to say I do believe there are plenty of competent civil engineers out there who can build a bridge and consider the climate they’re building it in. But those people never get hired by our governments.
the words tattooed on my forehead
I’m not gonna dox myself but a long time ago I had to go to school for the field i was working in at the time and I mentioned the name of the engineer who worked at the company I did and my teacher just…froze. i asked if he knew him and he said, he knew of him and refused to elaborate lmao
Not government job or anything