American electric car manufacturer Tesla initiated the recall of almost 1.1 million vehicles in the United States due to the risk posed by a security device in electric windows.
In a letter published on Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) indicates that, in several models of the brand, the detection system that should reverse the path of the electric glass in the face of an obstacle would not work correctly.
This potential failure increases the risk of injury to drivers and passengers, whose fingers could be pinched. The vehicles mentioned are some Model 3 manufactured between 2017 and 2022, Model Y between 2020 and 2021, Model S between 2021 and 2022 and Model X also between 2021 and 2022.
Tesla will conduct a remote software upgrade to comply with federal regulations and send notification letters to owners beginning Nov. 15.
The group owned by Elon Musk says no accidents, injuries, or deaths have been reported from this issue. Tesla it has already made several recalls this year to remotely update software that can be problematic.
The company has long run these updates without users or regulators being notified, but in recent months it has come under the scrutiny of the NHTSA, which launched an investigation last year after several crashes with emergency vehicles.
Elon Musk downplays report
In a tweet, the CEO of Tesla responded to the issue and describes the terminology used in this case as “outdated and inaccurate”, noting that this will be resolved with a software update.
After that response, Musk mentioned in networks that a new beta version of the software reached the 160 thousand owners of Tesla in the United States and Canada under the number 10.69.2.2, available for vehicles that exceed a score of 80 in security levels.
“The car will move in tighter spaces as we improve the NN (neural networks) speed predictions for crossing traffic. 10.69.3 next month has some pitch change improvements”Musk mentioned in response to a video demonstrating what’s new in this FSD Beta. However, there are no details about the solution to the glass problem in this update.
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For injury risk, Tesla looks at more than a million vehicles in the US.