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China is preparing to reshape how carmakers design something as simple yet crucial as a door handle. A new draft regulation from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is now open ...

Surveillance video at home in Coconut Grove captured the moment when a naked man ran towards the backyard and started pulling on a door's handle, and now, a woman who was inside with her family is ...

Tesla is set to redesign its electronic door release systems, aiming to simplify the operation in emergencies by combining the electronic and physical emergency release handles into a single button.

Tesla Inc. is working on a redesign of its door handles, which have drawn scrutiny over safety incidents that trapped passengers inside their vehicles. Franz von Holzhausen, Tesla’s longtime design ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has already done plenty to cause reasonable people to write off the entire company forever, but its vehicles also have plenty of issues on their own. MotorTrend lived with the ...

Tesla is looking into redesigning the way to open its car doors in an emergency following several accidents where passengers were reportedly trapped in burning vehicles because rescuers could not ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into reports that faulty electronic door handles on 2021 Tesla Model Y SUVs prevented owners from entering and exiting the vehicles, ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into about 174,000 Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab Model Y cars ...

U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating whether some Tesla Inc. vehicle doors are defective, citing incidents in which exterior handles stopped working, trapping children inside. The National ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into about 174,000 Tesla Model Y cars from the 2021 model year over ...