Close Doors via Touch Screen

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Now Implemented!

Description

Offer the ability to have an open door close via a touch screen button.

Competitive/Pricing/Notes

My wife and I are both way beyond our “chicken” years. Yeah old! A constant problem we both have is closing our doors after we’ve entered the car. Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a little button on the touch screen that we could push to close our respective doors? We’ve got so many automatic niceties that make things easier (& a few that just cater to our laziness) adding something like this especially for us older folks – and oh yes, for handicapped drivers/passengers and very short people too – would be so thoughtful. And quite original I would think. I could be wrong, but as far as I know, no other automobile manufacturer offers this as standard equipment. I would think something like this could be added without breaking the bank.

Moderator: This is different than door closers that pull the last one inch in as offered by some other luxury cars. There may be safety reasons that make a full door closure more difficult (such as closing it on your leg), but presumably, this can be detected and/or resolved as part of the feature.

Status

Now available on the Model X.

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     Created 21-Feb-2015

3 Comments

All taxis in Hong Kong and Japan has this feature. MB, BMW, and Bentleys have the soft close that sucks the door in for a firm secure close (less banging the doors).
    Created 22-Nov-2015
Rolls Royce Wraith and Ghost have this function.
    Created 27-Aug-2015
Minivans do this with the sliding doors. Maybe for the gull wing X model doors?
    Created 3-Jul-2015