00:00Tesla driver and two children perish after rescuers struggle with electronic doors.
00:06A father and two nine-year-old children died in a Tesla fire after a crash on September 19th in western Germany.
00:13Rescuers tried desperately to pull them out but couldn't open the car's electronic doors.
00:18The Tesla left the road while trying to pass another vehicle and hit a tree, according to North Rhine Westphalia's police department.
00:24Roman Yedrzejewski, a local business owner, grabbed a fire extinguisher and rushed toward the burning car.
00:34I wanted to rescue some people, Yedrzejewski told Ruhr News.
00:39Tesla doors don't have regular handles. When the car loses power, those buttons stop working.
00:47Tesla cars do have a manual override feature, but finding it during a fire takes knowledge most people don't have.
00:55Germany's Automobile Association, known as ADAC, warned in April 2024 that retractable door handles could create safety risks.
01:04Last year, four friends died in a burning Tesla after a crash in Toronto damaged the electronic doors, according to a lawsuit filed by relatives of one victim.
01:13U.S. regulators opened an investigation last week into Tesla's door handles after getting nine reports that electronic door handles on 2021 Model Y vehicles suddenly stopped working, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
01:32Four parents had to break their car windows to free their children from the back seat.
01:35The investigation covers about 170,000 Model Y vehicles.
01:41Tesla declined to comment on the investigation, or the Germany crash.
01:45Tesla is dealing with falling sales as deliveries are set to drop for the second year in a row, according to Reuters.
01:53The company faces several other NHTSA investigations, including reviews of its driver assistance systems and a summon feature that has caused parking lot crashes.
02:04But the door question sits at the center of everything.
02:11Police are looking at why the Tesla left the road.
02:14Regular door handles work whether the car has power or not.
02:18Tesla's electronic buttons only work when the battery does.
02:20Tesla's electronic buttons only work when the battery comes with a cameraotz anymore.
02:31Tesla doesn't work.
02:32Whether the car haused it's owned and that's one of theisterials.
02:37The mother doesn't touch the door.
02:39The individual URLs are flat, the ordinary transitions and the switches, whether the car or not be an obstacle or Venus is a crossляются or the case to pass for them.
02:43Tesla alerted them to 911 orders anywhere else.
02:45The tech courts have a larger motorcycle.
02:48They need to go with control the mic from other people who have their fellow distress.
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