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Tesla Is Redesigning Door Handles That Drew Safety Scrutiny  Bloomberg Trapped Inside: Tesla’s Dangerous Doors  Bloomberg Tesla redesigning door handles that drew scrutiny over safety, Bloomberg News reports  yahoo.com Tesla’s 2021 Model Y Doors Could Trap Riders, US Safety Agency Says  The New York Times Tesla Is Being Investigated by the Feds for the Model Y’s Electric Door Handles That May Not Work  Car and …

When Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency began wielding its ax at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration earlier this year, many believed this was done to weaken the agency’s oversight over Tesla. But despite the Tesla CEO’s sometimes-close relationship with the Trump administration, it appears there is still some independence left within NHTSA: earlier this week, the agency opened …

Tesla has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from a fatal crash in 2019. It’s the latest case to involve Autopilot, Tesla’s advanced driver assist system that the company claims will serve as the foundation for its future in self-driving cars and robotics. The case centers around the death of 15-year-old Jovani Maldonado, who was riding in a …

Authorities have identified the remains of a 15-year-old girl found in the trunk of a Tesla belonging to an R&B singer in Los Angeles earlier this month. The girl’s name was Celeste Rivas, and she was from Lake Elsinore, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office. Her cause of death has not been determined, authorities said, but is …

The decomposed body found last week in singer D4vd’s Tesla at a Los Angeles impound lot was identified as a teenage girl. Law enforcement told NBC News that the girl is around 14 or 15 years old. Authorities have not released her name because they have not located her family members. A cause of death is pending. The remains were …

Who says journalism is dead? Less than a week after Bloomberg published a damning report about Tesla’s “dangerous doors,” the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is now looking into it. On Tuesday, the regulator said it opened an investigation into the automaker’s electrically powered doors. The problem: They stop working if the vehicle’s low-voltage battery fails. The NHTSA’s …

US safety regulators have opened a probe focused on Tesla’s electric-powered door handles, responding to reports that they suddenly stopped working, leaving children trapped in the cars. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday that it had received nine complaints about the handles in Tesla’s 2021 Model Y cars, the company’s flagship model. In four of the …

Federal auto safety regulators opened an investigation Tuesday into possible defects in Tesla doors that have reportedly left parents with children trapped in the back seat and forced to break windows to get them out. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the preliminary probe is focused on 2021 Tesla Model Ys after receiving nine reports of electronic door handles …

Don’t look now, but the stock market is back to breakeven. The Nasdaq Composite turned positive on Tuesday, while the S&P 500 was flat. The Dow was still down 89 points, or 0.2%. But breadth was improving slightly as the day rolled on: The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF was down just 0.2% and climbing with roughly 209 S&P …

Tesla is under investigation for faulty electronic door handles that can trap people inside their vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched the probe, saying it was responding to numerous complaints filed by Tesla owners, with a particular focus on children who have been locked inside the vehicle without any way to get out. The news comes a …