Tesla has officially recalled almost 12,000 EVs because of a glitch in its Full Self-Driving software that causes vehicle’s brakes to engage without reason.
The electric vehicles company has had a few issues regarding pushing out software updates. Due to the issues regarding the automatic driving feature, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to launch a formal investigation on the company. U.S. regulators are once again voicing their concerns over the software. In response to the software bug, Tesla has pinpointed that the problem with automatic emergency braking is that it runs the risks of other cars running into Teslas from behind.
So they’ve set the recall to cover Tesla Models S, X, 3 and Y. The phantom braking began when Tesla sent out an OTA update on October 23. The following day, Tesla had already received reports of the problem and issued a recall on all affected cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that the software update issue affects 11,704 Teslas as only a select number of Tesla drivers have been “beta testing the “Full Self-Driving” software.
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