The 2026 Jeep Cherokee still comes with an electronic door release system, but it features a capacitor as a backup in case ...

Getting trapped in a dead-battery Cherokee was a real engineering concern, and this is the solution Jeep's designers landed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Disappearing door handles of death? Tesla's stylish electronic door latches are widely coveted, but also are reportedly involved ...

View post: Chevy Built a Corvette ZR1X to Celebrate America’s 250th Birthday Electronic door locks failed, trapping the driver and highlighting risks of over-engineered safety features. Regulators and ...

Volvo’s all-new EX60 electric SUV just fanned the flame of an ongoing, contentious industry debate by embracing electronic exterior door handles while addressing the underlying safety concerns that ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — On Your Side has done a series of reports on safety concerns with the electronic door latches on Teslas and some other new cars. Now a recent accident showed electronic door ...

Elon Musk wanted Tesla Inc.’s electric door handles to embody the future — sleek, seamless and emblematic of the cool he envisioned plug-in cars would come to personify. He succeeded: In just over a ...

Automakers cannot seem to leave simple mechanisms alone, often turning them into more complicated systems in the name of ...

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 ...

Electronic and flush-mount door handles are getting attention from regulators. Safety advocates are calling for change following several high-profile crashes where hard-to-find or ...