Tesla has issued a recall for greater than 321,000 Mannequin Y and Mannequin 3 autos over taillights which will fail to light up.

The corporate notified the Nationwide Freeway Site visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) that it’s recalling sure 2023 Mannequin 3 automobiles constructed between October 19 and November 5, 2022, and 2020-2023 Mannequin Y crossovers constructed between Might 24, 2020 and November 9, 2022. On affected autos, one or each taillights might intermittently fail to light up.

Within the security recall report, Tesla famous that the variety of probably concerned autos is 321,628, with affected autos having been recognized primarily based on car manufacturing, configuration and firmware information. The corporate estimates that lower than 1 % of autos on the highway in the US have the defect.

“In uncommon situations, taillamps on one or each side of affected autos might intermittently illuminate attributable to a firmware anomaly which will trigger false fault detections through the car get up course of. Brake lamps, backup lamps and switch sign lamps will not be affected by this situation and proceed to function as designed.”

It goes with out saying {that a} taillamp that fails to light up might end in lowered visibility in darkish situations, growing the chance of a crash each for affected Tesla autos and different autos approaching from behind. 

The excellent news for homeowners of affected autos is that they do not must carry them in to a workshop for repairs, as Tesla says the treatment is an over-the-air (OTA) software program replace that corrects the firmware anomaly which will trigger false fault detections through the car get up course of. The treatment will be certain that all taillamps function as designed, Tesla notes within the security recall report.

Beginning November 6, 2022, autos in manufacturing or in pre-delivery containment acquired the newest firmware that corrects the issue. Apparently, Tesla says it acquired buyer complaints primarily from overseas markets that claimed car taillamps weren’t illuminating.

That is the newest in an extended line of Tesla remembers for which the treatment is an over-the-air (OTA) software program replace. In September, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mentioned the NHTSA ought to evolve with the instances and cease calling these OTA software program updates “remembers” since they don’t seem to be truly bodily remembers. The NHTSA states that producers are required to provoke remembers for any restore, together with software program updates.