Summary:
- Tesla is recalling more than 125,000 vehicles to fix a seat belt warning system that may increase the risk of injury in a collision.
- The recall includes certain models from 2012 to 2024 for Model S, 2015 to 2024 for Model X, 2017 to 2023 for Model 3, and 2020 to 2023 for Model Y vehicles.
- The seat belt warning system failed to provide audible and visual reminders as required by federal safety regulations.
- Tesla identified 104 warranty claims related to the issue but reported no collisions, fatalities, or injuries.
- Tesla plans to deploy a free over-the-air software update in June to address the seat belt reminder issue.
- Previous recalls by Tesla include Cybertrucks for accelerator pedal issues and 2.2 million vehicles for small warning lights on the instrument panel.
The software update will remove dependency on the driver seat occupancy switch from the software and only rely on driver seat belt buckle and ignition status to activate the seat belt reminder signals.
Now I’m interested how it worked before and under what circumstances it failed. When the driver is too skinny? Squatting to hover their ass over the seat?
I wish they’d remove seatbelt as a wakeup dependency. I keep getting caught by that.
- Get in car
- Foot immediately on brake
EXPECTED: car wakes up while I put my seatbelt on
ACTUAL: car chimes seatbelt warning. I have to take my foot off brake, put seatbelt on, then put foot back on brake to wake car up. Now I can’t drive until it does.
I suppose it’s only a second or two that I’m twiddling my thumbs and it’s faster than starting a Dino-fueled car, and certainly I don’t expect to drive without a seat belt, but why does it insist on doing things in the order that makes me wait?
edit I read the summary again. 🤦♀️
Given this is a select number of vehicles, is it a physical recall this time?
It’s Tesla. It’s always going to be a OTA update.
I’m sure they’ll find a way to OTA update hardware issues.
I enjoy that they literally did. The article says the OTA update is just to ignore a hardware sensor
Which begs the question, why was that sensor needed originally?
Tesla, which is headed by billionaire Elon Musk, plans to start deploying an over-the-air software update to the affected vehicles free of charge in June. The software update will remove dependency on the driver seat occupancy switch from the software and only rely on driver seat belt buckle and ignition status to activate the seat belt reminder signals.
What a pointless use of a sensor. The only time you’d need to detect if there actually is someone sitting on the drivers seat before activating the seatbelt alarm is when they are doing something idiotic like using autopilot from the back seat.
There’s a lot of good reasons for such thing, for example automatically enabling parking brake if drivers seat is empty. No idea if Tesla has such thing but I’d fucking love to have it in my car. Forgotten to pull the brake couple times and just realized car starts moving when I’m about to exit the car lol
It has this feature. No rollaways!
