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Tesla recalls thousands of cars over ‘rolling stop’ feature
Tesla Inc. will recall 53,822 of its cars because a feature may allow the car to slowly roll through intersections without coming to a complete stop.
In a letter to Tesla made public today, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the recalled vehicles include the 2016-2022 Model S and Model X, the 2017-2022 Model 3 and the 2020-2022 Model Y vehicles, all of which run Full Self-Driving (Beta) software. The NHTSA added that not completely stopping at an intersection “can increase the risk of a crash.”
The Full Self-Driving mode in Tesla cars is a more advanced software than the company’s more common “Autopilot” software, but despite what the names suggest, neither of these technologies means a car can be trusted to drive itself safely all the time. Last year, the California Department of Motor Vehicles said it was investigating Tesla over what it said were misleading terms for the two types of software. Nonetheless, Tesla chief Elon Musk has always made it clear that the cars shouldn’t drive themselves without any human interaction at all.
NHTSA said Tesla will now perform an over-the-air software update to disable the rolling stop feature. It was introduced last year in a limited number of full-self-driving cars which came with three modes: “Chill,” “Average,” or “Assertive.” While using that last mode, Tesla said, the cars may “perform more frequent lane changes, will not exit passing lanes, and may perform rolling stops.”
In a document submitted by the NHTSA, it was said that a car can go through an “all-way-stop intersection at a speed from 0.1 mph up to 5.6 mph without first coming to a complete stop” but only if the road has a maximum speed limit of 30 mph and there are no “relevant” vehicles or people or bicycles around.
Tesla said it’s not aware of any accidents related to this feature, but it will disable it and notify the people affected by March 22 this year. Speaking about the issue on Twitter, Musk said that “there were no safety issues” with the function, adding, “The car simply slowed to ~2 mph & continued forward if clear view with no cars or pedestrians.”
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