SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Tesla Model Y owners are reporting a troubling tech problem with the high-tech electric vehicles locking children inside.

"The most commonly reported scenarios involved parents exiting the vehicle after a drive cycle in order to remove a child from the back seat or placing a child in the back seat before starting a drive cycle. The parents were unable to reopen a door to regain access to the vehicle," an investigation report by the U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states.

NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation has received nine separate reports of the problem from owners of 2021 Tesla Model Y vehicles.

In four of the incidents, parents resorted to breaking windows to regain entry. "Although Tesla vehicles have manu

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