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Federal regulators are investigating Tesla Model Y door handles after receiving nine reports of electronic systems failing and trapping children in back seats.

Parents had to break car windows in four cases to rescue their children when low battery voltage rendered the electronic door handles inoperable.

The inquiry covers 174,300 vehicles and follows previous incidents of Tesla drivers trapped in burning cars due to door malfunctions.

Federal auto safety regulators opened an investigation Tuesday into possible defects in Tesla doors that have reportedly left parents with children trapped in the back seat and forced to break windows to get them out.

The National Highway Traffic S

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