Just as we are celebrating the long holiday of the Lunar New Year (although it is a thing of the past), Tesla's original engineers seem to be able to work silently with tears in their eyes; The reason is not him, a few days ago Tesla North America a total of 817,143 new cars, due to the seat belt warning system "no warning" was silenced, rumors will be recall correction, it is expected that 2021 to 2022 factory Model 3, Model Y, Model S, Model X are in the affected range.
▲ The NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the United States has confirmed that there have been several related cases in China.
Under normal conditions, when the vehicle is started, if it is detected that the driver and the passenger are not properly fastened with seat belts, a warning sound will be issued immediately; However, the new Tesla car shipped from 2021 to 2022, but because of the abnormal code, the warning system can not operate normally, until the speed exceeds 22km/h will return to normal; At present, the NHTSA National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has confirmed several related cases in China and considered this to be a major safety flaw, so it asked Tesla to immediately recall and correct it.
Tesla said that the flaw has not yet caused any accidents and casualties, and although the warning sound cannot operate normally, the warning icon without seat belt can still be seen on the dashboard; Under the "overtime rush" of the original engineers, Tesla said that all affected models have been repaired through online OTA updates at the end of January, so owners do not need to worry too much.