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 about it.
On September 10, Bloomberg published a report on Tesla’s faulty door handles, which included the discovery of more than 140 consumer complaints "related to Tesla's doors getting stuck, not opening or otherwise malfunctioning since 2018." Several instances involved scenarios where passengers trapped inside a burning vehicle appeared to be unable to open the doors from the inside.
Five days later, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an official investigation into Tesla's door-opening mechanisms, citing nine similar complaints from Model Y owners. And on Sept. 17, Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen told Bloomberg's "Hot Pursuit!" podcast that the company is actively working on redesigning its door-opening mechanisms to make them easier to operate in a “panic situation."
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