Tesla has formally issued a recall on over 200,000 automobiles within the US over the self-driving laptop 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 serious difficulty with a brand new model of its onboard “Full Self-Driving laptop,” AI4.1, failing on account of a brief circuit, and Tesla should substitute the computer systems.
We discovered examples of the difficulty arising way back to July. The issue can begin shortly, inside a number of miles on a brand-new automotive or after a number of hundred to a couple 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 switch the pc fully, 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 clients in a tough 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 difficulty a recall concerning this difficulty regardless of having to take action since these automobiles have develop into non-compliant with NHTSA with out rear-view cameras.
Right now, 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 automobiles:
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 automobiles that have been outfitted 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 car energy up, a reverse present might trigger a shorting failure on the automotive laptop board, ensuing within the lack of rearview digicam performance, which doesn’t adjust to FMVSS 111, S5.5 and S6.2
Once more, the issue is far bigger than that as your entire laptop fails, however the automaker solely mentions the rear-view digicam 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 laptop 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 components 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 difficulty.
Within the treatment part of the recall, Tesla explains that it’ll push the software program repair to your entire inhabitants, however it’ll additionally proceed to offer laptop substitute for automobiles who expertise shorting:
On or shortly after December 18, 2024, for free of charge to clients, affected automobiles started receiving an over-the-air (OTA) software program replace that modifications the car energy up sequence to forestall the shorting failure situation to the first and/or secondary energy part. No additional motion is critical from homeowners of affected automobiles which might 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 establish which affected automobiles, 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 substitute the car’s automotive laptop for free of charge to the client.
We reported that some clients experiencing this difficulty are having to attend for months for a pc substitute.
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