This petition urges the NHTSA to stop calling OTA updates ‘recalls’

By Zachary Visconti Posted on March 12, 2024 One Tesla shareholder has launched a new petition encouraging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to change the language surrounding safety recalls that are fixed with an over-the-air (OTA) software update. On Tuesday, Sawyer Merritt announced on X that he has launched a petition to urge …

Tesla Model 3/Y power steering probe upgraded to engineering analysis

By Zachary Visconti Posted on February 4, 2024 The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has escalated an investigation into Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y to an engineering analysis, following driver complaints about losing power steering. The NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened the probe into the Tesla power steering on 2023 Model …

NHTSA head who led Tesla Autopilot investigation to step down

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 16, 2023 After overseeing the investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot system over the past couple of years, the acting chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Ann Carlson, has announced plans to step down. Carlson has been the regulator’s chief administrator since September 2022, and she emailed employees …