Tesla recalls thousands of cars for beta autopilot crashes. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration USA (NHTA) has announced that Tesla is recalling nearly 363,000 of its vehicles because the Full Self-Driving software could cause accidents. Specifically, NHTSA cites the risk of “exceeding speed limits or traveling through intersections in a non-code compliant manner or increasing the risk of an accident.”
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In all, the recall impacts 362,758 vehicles which, according to the announcement, include 2016-2023 Model S, 2017-2023 Model X, 2017-2023 Modelo 3, and 2020-2023 Model Y vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving Beta Software (FSD Beta).
NHTA initially launched its investigation into Tesla’s much-hyped Full Self-Driving system in August 2021 after fatal car crashes and terrifying social media posts documenting the software’s misbehaving. Initially it was just an engineering analysis, but last June, the agency updated the investigation, expanding it to system defects.
“We are investing a lot of resources,” NHTSA chief Ann Carlson told reporters:
Resources require a lot of technical expertise, actually some legal novelty and so we’re moving as fast as we can, but we also want to be careful and make sure we have all the information we need
Tesla will release a free Over the Air update to its customers to fix the problem, Reuters reports. This recall follows a script of similar corrective actions undertaken throughout the year 2022, which remedied issues experienced with the taillights and infotainment systems, while other incremental adjustments involved overheating, seat belt chime warnings, and even more.
