A US lawmaker is proposing legislation that would require manual door releases in new cars, a move to address growing safety ...

Predictably, the NHTSA has expanded the previous Model Y emergency door handle investigation to the Model 3, which features a similar door release design ...

Tesla's stock dropped after a Christmas Eve announcement of a new U.S. investigation into emergency door releases ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation into the emergency door release controls on some ...

Tesla is again under scrutiny from the safety regulators, this time because of its electronic door handles. After receiving nine complaints about inoperative door handles, the NHTSA opened a ...

Tesla is now under a new federal investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, according to an Office of Defects Investigation announcement on September 15, 2025—but it isn't ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a defect investigation into Tesla's Model 3 vehicles over the ...

Manual release handles are often buried deep in some Teslas, leading drivers and passengers to prep for worst-case scenarios ...

The Tesla Model Y's flush-mounted electronic door handles are under scrutiny after U.S. regulators started looking into more than 174,000 Model Y crossovers with door handles that could fail during ...

I'm interested in understanding all the failure modes of the various approaches. The door locks prevent exterior people from opening the doors as well. Most cars auto-unlock in the event of a crash ...

The U.S. auto safety investigation into the sedans' emergency door release controls renews scrutiny over Tesla's door design.

Traffic safety regulators are reviewing a motorist's complaints that the manual door handles on some Model 3 cars are hard to ...