NHTSA asked Tesla to recall 54,000 U.S. cars

On Tuesday (February 1), local time, Tesla recalled 53,822 cars located in the United States at the request of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

NHTSA said the recall covers parts of the 2016-2022 Model S and Model X, the 2017-2022 Model 3 and the 2020-2022 Model Y.

NHTSA said the cars, which are equipped with Tesla's FSD Beta software, could undergo "rolling stops," posing a safety risk. NHTSA said Tesla will also implement OTA software updates to ban vehicles from "rolling parking."

(Source: NHTSA)

The "rolling parking" feature was introduced in Tesla's software update version on October 20 last year. When a car is traveling at a speed of not less than 9 km/h, if it detects no moving vehicles, pedestrians or cyclists nearby, it will pass through an intersection marked "all-way stop" without stopping.

The feature violates a number of state and local laws that require vehicles to park at "all-way stops," prompting NHTSA to investigate Tesla. Tesla said that as of Jan. 27, no warranty claims, crashes, injuries or fatalities related to the recall had been identified.

Last week, the number of FSD Beta vehicles in the U.S. increased to nearly 60,000 from a few thousand at the end of September last year. Tesla said it has been testing improved versions of its FSD on public roads, but it has reiterated several times that "these features don't make the car fully autonomous." ”