Tesla has formally issued a recall on over 200,000 automobiles within the US over the self-driving pc contained in the automobile 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 difficulty with a brand new model of its onboard “Full Self-Driving pc,” AI4.1, failing on account of a brief circuit, and Tesla should change the computer systems.
We discovered examples of the difficulty arising way back to July. The issue can begin rapidly, inside a couple of miles on a brand-new automotive or after a couple of hundred to some thousand miles.
When the pc fails, many automobile 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 interchange the pc utterly, however sources additionally talked about a short lived 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 clients in a troublesome scenario with out the options and with quicker 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 difficulty a recall relating to this difficulty regardless of having to take action since these automobiles have develop into non-compliant with NHTSA with out rear-view cameras.
In the present day, Tesla formally launched a recall over the difficulty. For the primary time, we get a greater thought of the affected inhabitants, which provides as much as 239,382 automobiles:
The topic inhabitants contains sure Mannequin 12 months (MY) 2024 – 2025 Mannequin 3, MY 2023-2025 Mannequin Y, MY 2024-2025 Mannequin S and MY 2023-2025 Mannequin X automobiles that have been geared up with sure automotive 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 automobiles, upon automobile energy up, a reverse present might trigger a shorting failure on the automotive 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 your complete 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 observed the upper price of pc failure on November 21, 2024. It began investigating and after a couple of month, it believes it has an thought of the trigger, which might be a number of components working collectively:
This sequence of particular software program and {hardware} configurations, coupled with colder temperatures, might improve reverse present, which might brief the first and/or secondary energy elements.
As of December 30, 2024, Tesla has recognized 887 guarantee claims associated to this difficulty.
Within the treatment part of the recall, Tesla explains that it’s going to push the software program repair to your complete inhabitants, however it’s going to additionally proceed to supply pc alternative for automobiles who expertise shorting:
On or shortly after December 18, 2024, without charge to clients, affected automobiles started receiving an over-the-air (OTA) software program replace that modifications the automobile energy up sequence to forestall the shorting failure situation to the first and/or secondary energy part. No additional motion is important from homeowners of affected automobiles which are geared up with software program launch 2024.44.25.3, 2024.45.25.6 or a later launch if an affected automobile 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 automobiles, if any, skilled stress that will result in the shorting failure situation. If an affected automobile 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 change the automobile’s automotive pc without charge to the client.
We reported that some clients experiencing this difficulty are having to attend for months for a pc alternative.
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