Tesla is recalling more than two million vehicles, nearly all of the vehicles it has sold in the US to date, to fix a flawed system designed to make sure drivers are paying attention when they use Autopilot.
Rather than physically recalling vehicles, documents posted today by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) state that Tesla will send out a software update in an attempt to fix the problem.
The recall covers nearly all of the vehicles Tesla sold in the US, including the Model X, Model S, Model Y, and Model 3, and impacts those produced between October 5, 2012, and December 7 2023.
It comes after a two-year investigation by the NHTSA into a series of crashes that supposedly happened while Autopilot system was in use. Since 2016, the NHTSA has opened more than 40 special crash investigations involving Teslas and where advanced driver assistance such as Autopilot…
