Toronto, Ontario — The U.S.’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) decided Thursday that they have finally had enough when it comes to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software, ordering a recall of 362,000 from U.S. roads, according to Reuters.
The recall, which covers 2016 to 2023 Model S and Model X, 2017 to 2023 Model 3 and 2020 to 2023 Model Y vehicles, was called to address the potential for the technology to infringe upon local traffic laws, increasing the risk of a crash.
The NHTSA said Tesla’s FSD allows its vehicles to “exceed speed limits or travel through intersections in an unlawful or unpredictable manner increases the risk of a crash.”
The safety regulator elaborated further, saying “the system may respond insufficiently to changes in posted speed limits or not adequately account for the driver’s adjustment of the vehicle’s speed to exceed posted speed limits.”
As of press time Thursday, no deaths or injuries have been linked to the issuing of the recall, nor has Transport Canada followed suit in calling a recall on this side of the border.
The company says it will be releasing an over-the-air (OTA) update via driver’s vehicles to address the recall.
This is not the first time Tesla’s FSD software has entered the crosshairs of the NHTSA, as last year the EV automaker was forced to recall more than 50,000 vehicles to address complaints of “rolling stops” being made by vehicles in self-driving mode.
UPDATE 17/2: Transport Canada has announced the recall of Tesla 20,667 vehicles to address FSD issues.
