Tesla has formally issued a recall on over 200,000 autos within the US over the self-driving pc contained in the car short-circuiting and failing to work.
This is a matter that Electrek has been reporting on for a month.
In December, Electrek launched an unique report about Tesla having a significant problem with a brand new model of its onboard “Full Self-Driving pc,” AI4.1, failing as a result of a brief circuit, and Tesla should exchange the computer systems.
We discovered examples of the difficulty arising way back to July. The issue can begin rapidly, inside a number of miles on a brand-new automobile or after a number of hundred to some thousand miles.
When the pc fails, many car options cease working, like lively security options, auto wipers, auto excessive beams, cameras, and even GPS, navigation, and vary estimations.
Tesla’s repair was to exchange the pc utterly, however sources additionally talked about a brief software program repair to allow a number of the options within the meantime.
We adopted up with one other report earlier this week that highlighted how it’s leaving prospects in a troublesome state of affairs with out the options and with sooner battery degradation as the pc seems caught in an auto-update mode that drains 5 kWh per day.
Within the newest report, we additionally talked about that Tesla has but to problem a recall concerning this problem regardless of having to take action since these autos have turn into non-compliant with NHTSA with out rear-view cameras.
At the moment, Tesla formally launched a recall over the difficulty. For the primary time, we get a greater concept of the affected inhabitants, which provides as much as 239,382 autos:
The topic inhabitants consists of sure Mannequin Yr (MY) 2024 – 2025 Mannequin 3, MY 2023-2025 Mannequin Y, MY 2024-2025 Mannequin S and MY 2023-2025 Mannequin X autos that had been outfitted with sure automobile computer systems and working a software program launch that was previous to 2024.44.25.3 or 2024.45.25.6
Within the recall discover, Tesla describes the non-compliance:
On a small share of affected autos, upon car energy up, a reverse present could trigger a shorting failure on the automobile pc board, ensuing within the lack of rearview digital camera performance, which doesn’t adjust to FMVSS 111, S5.5 and S6.2
Once more, the issue is way bigger than that as the whole pc fails, however the automaker solely mentions the rear-view digital camera as a result of that’s the half that makes it a security threat and non-complaint.
Tesla says that it seen the upper fee of pc failure on November 21, 2024. It began investigating and after a few month, it believes it has an concept of the trigger, which might be a number of elements working collectively:
This sequence of particular software program and {hardware} configurations, coupled with colder temperatures, might enhance reverse present, which might quick the first and/or secondary energy parts.
As of December 30, 2024, Tesla has recognized 887 guarantee claims associated to this problem.
Within the treatment part of the recall, Tesla explains that it’s going to push the software program repair to the whole inhabitants, however it is going to additionally proceed to supply pc alternative for autos who expertise shorting:
On or shortly after December 18, 2024, for free of charge to prospects, affected autos started receiving an over-the-air (OTA) software program replace that adjustments the car energy up sequence to stop the shorting failure situation to the first and/or secondary energy element. No additional motion is critical from homeowners of affected autos which can be outfitted with software program launch 2024.44.25.3, 2024.45.25.6 or a later launch if an affected car has not skilled the shorting failure situation or stress that will result in the shorting failure situation. Tesla is actively working to determine which affected autos, if any, skilled stress that will result in the shorting failure situation. If an affected car skilled the shorting failure situation or stress that will result in the shorting failure situation previous to putting in software program launch 2024.44.25.3, 2024.45.25.6 or a later launch, then Tesla will exchange the car’s automobile pc for free of charge to the client.
We reported that some prospects experiencing this problem are having to attend for months for a pc alternative.
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