Yes, one of those things which are solutions to problems those don't exist.

Right now you can choose but there will be a time when every manufacturer will adopt this.

Similar to keyless entry cars. Once it was novelty but now you will struggle to find a car without keyless entry. Non keyless cars typically tend to be base trims only so if you want fancy features it will be bundled upon. :-(

Apparently you can ask for a no-cost 'downgrade' from keyless on some makes/models, but that does mean you have to buy a made-to-order car, rather than standard spec, which probably means less or no discount.

What would be nice is if you could just take a car to a main dealer and have the system disabled (and re-enabled if you wish, say when you sell it) during the service at a minimum of expense.

For the few upsides, it has so many significant downsides. Personally, I think that many modern 'features' on cars are just added to justify the exorbitant pricing.

Given most cars now cars auto-lock when you start moving, I wouldn't have thought the failure mode of the locks not releasing would any more or less likely than the "pop out" handle not popping out.

Personally I think those pop out door handles look awful when unlocked, as though something is broken. However, can't they be opened by pushing in the opposite end of the handle to where you're meant to pull even if it hasn't popped out.

Like most design fads, I suspect they'll soon go out of favour. Given they are mostly a feature of "premium" SUVs which are the size of a Transit van and have the aerodynamic efficiency of a house brick, I can't believe they are primarily there for fuel saving.

They must also help the profits of the chip/scratch repair people from repairing ring damage - or am I old fashioned for using the handle to close the door rather than pushing it anywhere....

Thankfully i haven't driven a truck with cameras instead of mirrors, and i won't be, my company won't have them, they were trialled via a demonstrator and universally condemned with unprintable words.

Field and depth of vision poor, at night hopeless because the rate of LED flickr and camera refresh rate combine to make everything flickering all the, bad enough with the required all round safety cameras required for (London so far) urban use, as rain droplets form and fall off it triggers a momentary flash probably as infa red reverts instantly to daytime (refraction from headlights) so you see repeated flashes from the corner of your eye from the camera screen.

Something else designed by somone who's never done the actual job for a living long term in all weathers and situations, no doubt cameras instead of mirrors look wonderful on a power point presentation and in perfect evaluation settings perform ok, out in the real world of filthy roads countless sources of light and having to maneuver in dark restricted places they are not up to the job...another answer to yet another question nobody asked.

My advice, when the roads are wet and filthy and especially when its dark wet and filthy take even more care of being near HGVs that don't have normal mirrors...have you noticed folks the obvious that you can no longer see the driver when there's no mirrors until you're almost al the past, even less chance of judging whether he's looking for or at you.