In February 2016 social media users began sharing videos and articles displaying an interesting (but not new) claim, holding that motorists could unlock their car doors using just a tennis ball: A ...

Model S driver died; how other automakers do latches, and the unusual Model 3 setup. We can’t yet know exactly what happened in this specific case, but it could have been a couple different things.

One common reason the car door lock is stuck in the locked position is due to broken connections within the door panel or lock assembly. These include a broken link from either the handle, lock ...