If the modern look of the car can render its occupants helpless and stuck in the vehicle when the power goes out or an ...

Tesla owners are buying emergency escape tools — glass breakers, door release kits, pull cords — after electric door failures left occupants trapped inside vehicles. The failures occur when ...

Bloomberg report claims Tesla's electronic door releases have led to at least 15 incidents wherein occupants were killed ...

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

Could a hidden lever be the difference between life and death? U.S. safety regulators are now asking that question as they ...

Tesla has been harshly criticized in the past for its electromechanical door releases, which proved a hazard to occupants in the case of a crash. With the refreshed Model Y, Tesla has made progress in ...

U.S. auto safety regulators have opened a new probe into Tesla’s emergency door releases on certain Model 3 sedans. The ...

A single report to the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) just sparked a probe into 179,071 Tesla Model 3s. All are from ...

Before an airline can take to the skies, it needs to pass a tough evacuation test. The crew must evacuate an entire aircraft in under 90 seconds, using only half the emergency exits, to meet the FAA's ...