Tesla recall or not? Elon Musk Wants a Washington Agency to Embrace the Digital Age
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Tesla will send out letters weeks from now about a recall it started addressing in September.
A few weeks from now, Tesla will notify owners of almost 1.1 million vehicles about a safety issue the electric-car maker already started addressing last month. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration didn't force the manufacturer to make the fix — Tesla discovered the window glitch through internal testing and determined it warranted a voluntary recall. But the company is required by law to send out letters to each owner's mailboxes, and deem this a recall, even if it remedied the issue with an over-the-air (OTA) software update. Elon Musk isn't the only one who thinks this is anachronistic. Justin Demaree, who owns a Model 3 and a Model Y, has at least twice receiv...