"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 not working possibly due to low battery voltage."
"In April, a college basketball recruit said he was "fighting time" trying to get out of his Tesla Cybertruck that had caught fire after he had crashed into a tree and was unable to get the doors open. The University of Southern California player, Alijah Arenas, who was induced into a temporary coma after the accident, said he stayed alive by dousing himself with a water bottle as smoke filled the vehicle."
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a preliminary probe focused on 2021 Tesla Model Ys after receiving nine reports that electronic door handles failed, possibly due to low battery voltage. Tesla has manual door releases installed inside vehicles, but children may not reach or know how to operate them; in four incidents parents broke windows to reach rear-seat occupants. NHTSA is evaluating operability of electronic door locks from outside the vehicle and will continue monitoring reports of entrapment from inside. The probe follows multiple incidents of door failures during fires and power loss, including a Cybertruck fire in April and a pending lawsuit over a Model 3 fatality.
Read at ABC7 Los Angeles
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