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Updated Tesla Model X falcon wing door frustrates owners

The rear doors on the Model X, a signature styling feature of the crossover, have been troublesome from the start.
RT
By:
Richard Truett
August 31, 2016 05:00 AM

A software update of the complex computer-controlled gullwing doors on Tesla’s Model X may have created a bigger problem than the one it solved.

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