Elon Musk-led Tesla is recalling greater than 125,000 automobiles within the US to repair a defect with the seatbelt warning system in a few of its automotive fashions, federal security regulators mentioned Friday.
The affected Tesla automobiles skilled a problem during which “the seat belt warning mild and audible chime might not activate as supposed” when the motive force is unbelted, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said.
Tesla will repair the issue with an over-the-air-software replace for free of charge to automobile homeowners.
The replace is predicted to happen in some unspecified time in the future in June.
“The software program treatment will take away dependency on the motive force seat occupancy change from the software program logic and solely depend on driver seat belt buckle and ignition standing to activate the seat belt reminder alerts,” the NHTSA mentioned.
The recall applies to sure 2012-2024 Tesla Mannequin S, 2015-2024 Mannequin X, 2017-2023 Mannequin 3 and 2020-2023 Mannequin Y automobiles, in keeping with a launch.
Tesla shares have been flat in Friday buying and selling.
The electrical automobile big had beforehand issued a voluntary recall for nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks in April to fix an issue with faulty accelerator pedals that risked inflicting deadly accidents.
The NHTSA’s security report on the time mentioned the pad on the accelerator pedals of affected Cybertrucks “might dislodge, which can trigger the pedal to develop into trapped within the inside trim above the pedal.”
In December, Tesla performed on an over-the-air recall of more than 2 million cars in the US — the biggest in firm historical past — handle issues from federal regulators that security alerts in its Autopilot semi-autonomous driving system “will not be ample to stop driver misuse” of the software program.
Final month, the feds mentioned they have been investigating whether or not these updates have been ample following a sequence of crashes.
With Submit wires
