WASHINGTON — Ford Motor Co. is recalling greater than 462,000 automobiles globally for rearview cameras that won’t show photographs.

The recall covers Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator massive crossovers from the 2020-23 mannequin years and Lincoln Corsair compact crossovers from the 2020-22 mannequin years, all outfitted with a 360-degree digital camera. It impacts almost 383,000 automobiles in america, greater than 39,000 in Canada and greater than 5,000 in Mexico, Ford spokeswoman Maria Buczkowski mentioned.

Ford advised U.S. auto security regulators it’s conscious of 17 minor accidents allegedly ensuing from the defect. It’s not conscious of any accidents.

“Remembers are an essential means for us to maintain our clients secure and with each recall we need to make the expertise of getting serviced simpler on our clients,” Buczkowski mentioned in a press release to Automotive Information. “With this recall, clients will be capable of reap the benefits of cell service freed from cost with taking part sellers to get the software program replace configured on their car at their comfort.”

The video output on the recalled automobiles could fail, stopping the rearview digital camera picture from displaying and rising the chance of a crash whereas in reverse, in keeping with a recall report submitted Monday to NHTSA.

“The video data from a number of of the 360 cameras, which incorporates the rearview digital camera, could fail to feed to the ‘Sync’ show display throughout some key cycles,” the report states. “The problem is intermittent and should get well throughout subsequent ignition cycles. As soon as current, the difficulty will seemingly reoccur on the identical digital camera(s) intermittently.”

As of Nov. 30, there have been 2,115 guarantee stories alleging a blue picture within the rear digital camera show.

To repair the difficulty, sellers will replace the picture processing module software program.

The U.S. unit of French provider Valeo provides the rearview digital camera and picture processing module, in keeping with the report.

Sellers can be notified beginning Jan. 31. Homeowners can be notified beginning Feb. 20.

To this point this yr, Ford has issued two recollects, affecting almost 384,000 automobiles, in keeping with NHTSA information.