There’s excellent news and dangerous information for Tesla homeowners. The dangerous information is that your automotive may’ve simply gotten recalled over security considerations. The excellent news is that you do not have to take it wherever.
In an official discover, the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (or NHTSA) ordered the recall of greater than two million Teslas within the U.S. on account of unintentional collisions that may happen with the “autosteering” function turned on. The particular fashions affected are as follows, per The Verge:
2020-2023 Mannequin Y2016-2023 Mannequin X2017-2023 Mannequin 32012-2023 Mannequin S
There’s one main caveat to all of this: It isn’t really a recall within the sense that homeowners should give up their vehicles to be bodily repaired. As a substitute, it’s going to come within the type of an over-the-air software program replace in December that can restrict autosteering in sure circumstances, amongst different issues.
In case you do not know, autosteering is not the identical as full self-driving. It is a fundamental Tesla function that may assist maintain your automotive in a driving lane at cruising velocity, but it surely requires that you just maintain your fingers on the wheel always. The software program replace as a part of this recall will apparently embrace extra alerts prompting customers to not take their fingers off the dang wheel.
2023 has been a banner 12 months for Tesla recollects. Again in February, an identical recall was issued over full self-driving points that had been additionally fastened with a software program replace. In July, some Teslas had been really bodily recalled for seatbelt points that needed to be repaired the old school approach.
Simply bear in mind, when shopping for a Tesla, that that is all the time a risk.