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NHTSA is investigating Tesla over its electronic door handles


They won't open from the outside when the low-voltage battery fails. Like, you know, when it's on fire.

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. Losing precious seconds due to the door design, she suffered third-degree facial burns and had lasting lung damage from smoke inhalation. The same month, five people in Wisconsin died inside a Model S. The cluster of bodies in the front seat suggested to the detective they may have struggled to escape.

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