From Tesla to Lexus, more and more vehicles have doors with an electronic button instead of a manual latch. CR lets you know how to open them in an emergency.

In some ways, the humble door handles we use to open our vehicles haven’t changed much in over five decades. In others, today’s modern handles represent a leap forward in technology. In the formative ...

Many newer cars have replaced the tried-and-true door handle with complex electronic versions. Here’s how to operate their manual releases in an emergency. Using the electronic door handle in a 2017 ...

Zak is new to the CarBuzz team, working as a freelance content writer. When Zak isn't writing How To articles for CarBuzz he's working as a high school automotive technology instructor. Before ...

Volkswagen has issued a recall of 16,207 units of the 2023 ID.4, the fourth such safety action in the past six months. This time it’s about outside door handles that can allow water inside the door ...

Federal regulators ordered Tesla to comply with an investigation into possibly defective door handles that reportedly led to trapped passengers.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A dynamic component test methodology using a door sub-system was developed to simulate the outside door handle/latch responses (accelerations ...

Ask just about any street rodder what's so special about the early cars and more than likely the reply will be that vintage vehicles have more style, more character, and more appeal than contemporary ...

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 ...

A new lawsuit alleges that Tesla's poor door handle design on the 2016 Model S led to 5 deaths in a 2024 Wisconsin crash.