Lawmakers Go After Deadly Tesla Handles

In a real emergency, you don’t get a calm tutorial. You get smoke, darkness, panic, and seconds that feel like pennies sliding off a table. That’s why “how do I open the door” is not a design detail. It’s survival.

Reuters reported that NHTSA opened a defect investigation into 179,071 model year 2022 Tesla Model 3 vehicles over concerns that emergency door release controls may not be easily accessible or clearly identifiable. Reuters also reported the agency opened the investigation on December 23...