Within the past week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued recall orders over more than 120, 000 vehicles manufactured by a variety of well known automobile brands, of which Elon Musk’s Tesla made the list with 54,676 of its Model X SUVs over poor vehicle controllers on the model causing an incorrect indication of brake fluid levels which would likely lead to poor brake performance and a higher risk of collision while driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the last 10 years there has been a steady increase in the number of recalls of vehicles as a result of manufacturers oversight in identifying defects in vehicle components before they are released into car dealerships for sale. Poor data analysis also plays a major part in car manufacturers inability to catch defects sooner. Hence recalls are an important system in eliminating unreasonable risks to drivers safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the NHTSA report on certain MY 2021-2023 Model X vehicles, the vehicle controller which detects the sensor voltage that indicates brake fluid levels has an insufficient threshold range at low fluid levels. The safety risk is such that when a vehicle controller does not indicate low brake fluid levels to the driver, this affects brake pedal feel or brake performance, thereby increasing the chance of a collision. An estimated 98% of the Model X SUVs carry the identified defect. Read the full recall report here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n It is advised to check if a vehicle has an open recall while looking to make a purchase, to know if the affected component can be replaced by the dealership, such recalls usually come at no cost to the customer intending to make a purchase. Open recalls on particular or various vehicle models as well as safety reports can be verified on the official database of the Department of Transportation in respective regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tesla has since put out a free OTA software update and will be mailing owner notification letters to its customers owners by December 12th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Within the past week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued recall orders over more than 120, 000 vehicles manufactured by a variety of well known automobile brands, of which Elon Musk’s Tesla made the list with 54,676 of its Model X SUVs over poor vehicle controllers on the model causing an incorrect indication […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundretrievers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundretrievers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundretrievers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundretrievers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundretrievers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundretrievers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/fundretrievers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundretrievers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundretrievers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundretrievers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundretrievers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}