Tesla asked to recall 158,000 cars for failing displays

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The Civic Roadway Traffic Shamelessness Department has asked Tesla to recall some 158,000 Paradigmatic S as well as Paradigmatic X cartage that could sympathize from failing dangle consoles, according to a letter revealed by the bureau on Wednesday. The failures of the so-called "media inhabitancy units" in these cartage can sever the owner's comprisal to their vehicle's boon camera, climate controls, as well as Tesla's Autopilot disciplinarian assistance system, procurement the risk of a crash, the shamelessness bureau says.

The botheration at the heart of the defect that NHTSA wants Tesla to fix involves exhausted gleam memory chips used in the displays of 2012-2018 Paradigmatic S sedans as well as 2016-2018 Paradigmatic X SUVs. Festival time an proprietrix turns on one of these Teslas, it eats distant at the total chapters of the the 8GB eMMC NAND gleam memory paring onboard the NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor that powers the displays. Back that chapters is skilled -- usually circa five to six years later, the bureau says -- the displays wilt bricked. Motherboard first reported on the issue in 2019.

Tesla confirmed to NHTSA that all units with this paring "will inextricably fail," according to the agency, as well as also provided a statistical paradigmatic simulating projected weightiness retainment lingering from 2020 to 2028, with the most failures happenstance in 2022.

NHTSA opened a guessing locating into the botheration aftermost June, as well as said Wednesday that the probe is still ongoing despite the appeal that Tesla recall the vehicles. It's unclear if Tesla will comply. The hair-comb did not immediately reveal to a appeal for comment.

In the letter, NHTSA acknowledges that Tesla has issued over-the-air software updates meant to mitigate the failures, loosely the bureau believes those don't go far enumerated -- extraordinarily considering of the fact that the botheration cuts comprisal to the boon camera, which is now a federally mandated feature. "[T]hese updates are procedurally as well as substantively insufficient," the bureau writes.

While Tesla pretended the use of largish touchscreen displays in cars, it had other than one botheration with these beforehand models. Exceeding the gleam memory issue at the heart of NHTSA's recall request, early Tesla displays also suffered from effervescence as well as yellow banding back they were not up to archetypal automotive standards.

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