One of Volvo's engineers created the three-point seat belt, and the company recently announced its goal to prevent anyone ...

Tesla is facing growing scrutiny in the United States over allegedly faulty electric door handles that fail to open in an ...

Power door handles rely on electricity to operate. So if your 12-volt battery is dead or damaged by a collision, how do you get out of the car?

It would force automakers to make manual override latches easier to use, as well.

A bill introduced in the U.S. House would require automakers to equip all new vehicles with clearly accessible, ...

After a series of fatal crashes linked to electric door handles, China is banning them and forcing automakers to rethink global safety design ...

For well over a decade, some production cars have shown up to owners with electric door poppers. The technology isn’t exclusive to electric vehicles or exactly novel, either. The C5 Chevrolet Corvette ...

Chinese regulators are considering a ban on fully retractable car door handles, citing safety hazards and functional deficiencies. Tesla, which pioneered the "auto-presenting" door handles on the ...

Tesla is again under scrutiny from the safety regulators, this time because of its electronic door handles. After receiving nine complaints about inoperative door handles, the NHTSA opened a ...

A fatality involving a Xiaomi Corp. SU7 electric sedan has renewed scrutiny of flush car door handles and is likely to reinforce China’s push for tougher safety standards. Bystanders were unable to ...

A US lawmaker has introduced a bill seeking mandatory manual door releases in cars, citing safety risks linked to electronic ...

Deadly car doors that can trap passengers inside cars during an emergency will disappear from the road following government ...