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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking into reports that faulty electronic door handles on 2021 Tesla Model Y SUVs prevented owners from entering and exiting the vehicles, according to filing on the regulator’s website. In several cases, parents describe situations in which they were unable to access children inside the car.

The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) received nine reports on “inoperable door handles,” with the most commonly reported issues involving parents’ inability to reenter the car after placing their child in the back seat before going on a drive, or to remove their child from the back seat at the end of a drive.

Some Tesla owners reported having to break a vehicle’s window to regain entry, the NHTSA documents state. (NHTSA’s number for

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