The US auto safety regulator received 12 complaints of loss of steering control and power steering on 2023 Tesla Model 3/Y vehicles.
electric vehicles. According to one of the complaints sent by a Model 3 driver in May, the"car steering felt stuck and slid off the road which resulted in crashing into a tree."
Another driver in June reported that a two-week old Tesla Model Y was leaving a shopping center in Alpharetta, Georgia when"suddenly steering wheel did not steer. It was hard and saw the alert. Went to very close to opposite side of traffic and some how made it to across the road inside the shopping center."
A more recent complaint said a Tesla Model Y that was less than 30 days old in April was turned on and the"wheel jerked hard right and made a thud," followed by a"Steering Assist Reduced" screen warning and an error code.The driver said power steering was disabled and told the NHTSA the car felt unsafe to steer."Tesla has moved my service visit from May 2 to May 25 due to a backlog of parts.
The NHTSA probe is the first step of a formal investigation to determine if the issue poses an unreasonable safety risk. The agency would need to upgrade the probe to an engineering analysis before it could require Tesla to issue a recall. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Judging by the symptoms exhibited by Tesla cars in the complaints, this doesn't seem to be an issue that can be resolved via an over-the-air software update. One thing is certain: if Tesla ends up issuing a recall and it has to replace steering racks on 280,000 cars, it will be a pretty expensive one.
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