American car manufacturer Tesla has reportedly been forced to recall more than 125,000 vehicles dating from 2012 to 2024 in the United States, due to a problem with the seat belt warning system.
“Tesla identified that seat belt reminder signals were not sounding or displaying,” reads a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) report released Friday. and reported by Reuters.
In total, Tesla should recall 125,227 automobiles belonging to its models S,
Indeed, the company would have realized during a professional expertise carried out last April that the warning light supposed to light up and emit a sound if the driver of the vehicle is not restrained could be defective in some of its models, which “increases the risk of injury in the event of a collision,” noted the NHTSA.
As of May 28, however, Tesla had not been notified of any “collision, death or injury” that could “have been linked to this condition,” we can read.
According to Reuters, a software update, which will be rolled out this month, should fix the problem while the sensor will rely only on the driver’s seat belt buckle to activate the signals, and not on a seat occupancy sensor.
However, this is not the first time that Tesla has been subject to recalls: just in January, the company had to recall 200,000 vehicles of its Models S, X and Y due to a software malfunction that risked obstructing driver visibility when putting into reverse, according to Reuters.
It was also forced to recall 3,878 Cybertrucks in April after realizing that an accelerator pedal pad was threatening to come loose and become stuck, according to the US news agency.
Tesla has also been under investigation since last month to determine whether its new autopilot protection measures are adequate enough after a series of crashes, Reuters concluded.
