Tesla is recalling over 362,000 vehicles due to problems with their automated-driving technology.
U.S. authorities said in the recall report that the electric carmaker's so-called Full Self-Driving Beta system may increase the risk of crashes.
- The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said in a filing on Thursday that Tesla's automated-driving technology may "allow the vehicle to act unsafe around intersections.”
- The problems "increase the risk of a collision if the driver does not intervene,” said the NHTSA.
- The filing noted that Tesla did not concur with the NHTSA's safety assessment but agreed to recall 362,758 vehicles “out of an abundance of caution.”
- Affected units include some Model 3, Model X, Model Y, and Model S cars that were manufactured between 2016 and 2023.
- The vehicles are expected to be fixed by April 15 through a software update.
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that it was "anachronistic" and "flat wrong" to use the word "recall" to describe the fix that will be applied to the vehicles.
