Bryan ISD school board members spend money from the 2020 bond issue to replace doorknobs with door levers at four elementary schools. BISD’s construction services director Bobby Griffin told board ...

New safety rules could force Tesla to rethink its sleek, flush door handles as regulators raise concerns about accessibility during power loss or crash events. Regulators are scrutinizing Tesla’s ...

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The families of Krysta Tsukahara, 19, and Jack Nelson, 20, have each filed separate lawsuits against Tesla, over a deadly 2024 crash in Piedmont involving a Cybertruck. Attorneys for both families say ...

The parents of two college students who died in a Cybertruck crash last fall are suing Tesla, alleging the truck’s door design trapped the victims inside. Separate lawsuits filed Thursday by the ...

Tesla’s door handle design is notoriously terrible, unintuitive, and dangerous. Customers have been saying it for years. After multiple damning reports, the company might finally be doing something ...

The NHTSA probe was triggered by nine complaints of door handle malfunctions, with particular concern over cases where children were trapped. In these instances, parents couldn't reopen the doors to ...

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 ...

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab is looking to combine the electronic and manual door-release mechanisms, which are currently in separate locations, the company's longtime design ...

Tesla is “working on” redesigning its door handles so they are less likely to trap people inside their cars, chief designer Franz von Holzhausen told Bloomberg News on Wednesday. The news comes just ...

The U.S. has opened a probe into 174,000 Tesla Model Y vehicles after door handles failed without warning. In some cases, parents smashed windows to free children trapped inside. Tesla is facing ...