On Thursday, local time, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) posted a safety recall notice on its website, stating that Tesla will voluntarily recall 362758 vehicles equipped with fully autonomous driving test or FSD test version in the United States.
As for the reason for the recall, the notice states that the FSD beta system may allow affected vehicles to behave unsafely near intersections, such as crossing an intersection directly in a turning lane, entering an intersection controlled by a stop sign without a complete stop, or quickly driving into an intersection with a flashing yellow traffic signal.
In addition, FSD Beta systems can also have problems when "responding appropriately to speed limit changes".
Affected vehicles include the following models: Model S and Model X from 2016-2023, Model 3 from 2017-2023, and Model Y from 2020-2023, which have been installed or are in the process of installing FSD Beta, and Tesla will update the software to the car through an "over-the-air (OTA) upgrade" to address these issues.
In fact, NHTSA had notified Tesla of the matter in January this year, but in the days before receiving the notice, Tesla met with NHTSA several times to express disagreement with its analysis results, until February 7, Tesla finally decided to carry out the recall, saying that it was "out of great caution."
However, Tesla's CEO was clearly not happy about the "recall", saying on Twitter: "Using the word 'recall' to describe over-the-air software updates is inopportune and completely wrong!" He stressed that this security flaw can be fixed through software updates.