Why do Tesla door handles suck? (Devan Design Week)
NO SUCH THING
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4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Devan Design Week, a one-episode celebration of the stuff Devan cannot stand the design of. From Tesla’s confusing door handles, to microwaves with too many buttons, and sad modern couches.
Our guests this week are: WIRED’s Aarian Marshall, Kill Switch host and part-time microwave engineer Dexter Thomas, and design expert and Snake newsletter writer Sami Reiss.
We reached out to Tesla about the claims that its electronic door handles are dangerous, but we haven't heard back.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Annie. I'm Noah. |
| 0:01.3 | And this is Devon. And this is No Such Thing. The show will reset our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. |
| 0:08.0 | On today's episode, why does everything suck? |
| 0:12.0 | There's no such thing. No such thing. |
| 0:18.0 | No such thing. No such thing. No such thing. No. Such thing. |
| 0:22.5 | All right. Such thing. |
| 0:24.9 | No. |
| 0:25.2 | Such. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank. |
| 0:26.7 | No. |
| 0:29.7 | All right, fellas. |
| 0:34.7 | Welcome to Devin Design Week, which is not a week. |
| 0:38.9 | It's just one episode of the podcast. |
| 0:40.9 | It'll take you a week to listen to you if you break it up. |
| 0:44.3 | This is going to be mostly me complaining about things in my life that I hate the design of. |
| 0:49.8 | So we're going to be talking about Tesla door handles. |
| 0:53.5 | We're going to be talking about microwaves.. We're going to be talking about microwaves. |
| 0:55.8 | And we're going to be talking about couches. |
| 0:58.0 | So let's get right into it. |
| 1:00.7 | Let's dive in. |
| 1:06.5 | It's 1 a.m. |
| 1:07.9 | You know, you're at a bar. |
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