Proposed regulations in China would mean the end of flush handles on car doors, with precious little time to roll out the changes. Car door handles seem innocuous. Tesla’s electronic, retractable ones ...

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Rivian is changing the door handle design on its upcoming R2 SUV after employees and customers raised safety concerns, according to Bloomberg News. The automaker is one of many that has leaned into ...

If there is a big complaint about Tesla vehicles besides their Full Self-Driving and Autopilot issues, it’s related to their interior door handles. Specifically, the emergency door handles are hidden ...

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 ...

Tesla is apparently rethinking one of its door handle designs as US regulators ramp up scrutiny. On a Bloomberg podcast this week, Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen revealed the company plans to ...

Tesla is under scrutiny in China and the US for its electric door handles, with an NHTSA investigation launched earlier this week. The investigation was prompted after owners reported being unable to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

When firefighter Max Walsh saw smoke rising in the distance, he figured he was sprinting toward yet another car fire. As a firefighter, he’d seen plenty of them, but this time, he was actually headed ...