Tesla is recalling nearly 54,000 vehicles over their ability to complete “rolling stops.”
The vehicles in question are those operating with the company’s Full Self-Driving (Beta) software, which may allow a car to travel through an all-way stop intersection without first coming to a stop itself, creating safety risks for other drivers.
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The recall will affect certain 2016-2022 Model S and Model X, 2017-2022 Model 3, and 2020-2022 Model Y vehicles, according to documents released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Tesla will perform an over-the-air software update to disable the “rolling stop” function free of charge in early February.
The feature was sent to beta testers on Oct. 20, according to the NHTSA. The regulatory agency then met with Tesla on Jan. 10 and Jan. 19 to discuss the software, and Tesla agreed to disable the rolling stops on Jan. 20.
The recall went public days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the company’s quarterly earnings. In that call, Musk stated that he was confident that Full Self-Driving will be fully achieved and usable in 2022. Musk was a bit frustrated that the public was not appreciating the full functionality of the update.
“It’s not like some little feature,” he said. “It’s like the most profound software upgrade maybe in history.”
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