Tesla
On Thursday, Tesla had to issue a recall of about 363,000 electric vehicles. At issue is the company’s highly controversial “fully self-driving” beta, which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration considers dangerous.
NHTSA has four main complaints about driver assistance systems.
The FSD Beta system may allow vehicles to behave unsafely around intersections. For example, go straight through an intersection in a turn lane, enter an intersection with a stop sign without coming to a complete stop, or enter an intersection while stopped. Light up a yellow traffic light without paying enough attention.
In addition, NHTSA said, “The system either did not adequately respond to changes in the posted speed limit, or properly considered the driver’s adjustment of the vehicle’s speed to exceed the posted speed limit. It may not be,” he said.
According to a timeline released by the country’s motor vehicle safety regulator, NHTSA told Tesla on Jan. 25 that it had four concerns about the FSD Beta’s driving behavior and asked Tesla to issue a recall. After weeks of debate, Tesla apparently disagreed with the agency, but decided to issue the recall anyway, presumably after reading the writing on the wall.
This recall affects 2016-2023 Model S, 2016-2023 Model X, 2017-2023 Model 3, and 2020-2023 Model Y and asks if a software release containing the Street Autosteer feature is installed. , the installation is pending.”
This is at least the second recall of the FSB Beta. In November 2021, the OEM had to recall 11,706 EVs that had downloaded his then-latest FSD beta. This is because that version tends to brake improperly, leading to multiple complaints.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said in the past that FSD is a “success or failure” for Tesla, and that the feature will help his company “whether it’s worth a lot of money or basically nothing.” I said that the difference is
Affected Tesla owners will be notified by mid-April, and the automaker plans to release a new version of the software over the air. This will “improve how FSD Beta negotiates certain driving maneuvers under the circumstances described above.”
This doesn’t mark the end of Tesla’s driver assistance problems. NHTSA continues to investigate his ubiquitous Autopilot feature, albeit inferior, after 41 crashes since 2016, killing at least 19 people.
