ALBAWABA - Tesla has announced that it is recalling 1.85 million cars in the United States owing to the possibility of software malfunction to detect an unlatched hood under certain circumstances.
Earlier in mid-June, Tesla started distributing an over-the-air software update that detects an open hood and alerts drivers in response to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) warning that a released hood could completely swing open and hinder the driver's view, raising the risk of a crash.
According to records released concerning the recall by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Tesla's investigation revealed that the problems were more common in China than in Europe or North America for undetermined reasons.
Many current models produced by the American carmaker are included in the recall, notably certain Model 3, Model S, and Model X vehicles manufactured after 2020.
Tesla claimed that it has no record of any accidents or injuries in the US and that it was only aware of three reports that could be connected to the issue, with the notice stating that only 1 percent of the recalled vehicles are expected to be at the risk of defect.
“Out of an abundance of caution while all engineering studies continue, Tesla made a determination to voluntarily recall affected vehicles,” NHTSA documentation reads.
This recall is the largest that Tesla, which revealed its lowest quarterly profit margin in almost five years last week, has conducted since it installed additional safety measures in its Autopilot system on 2.03 million American vehicles last December, which at the time was almost all of its automobiles on American roads, as per Reuters.
