Approx. 600,000 Teslas Recalled for Federal Standards Violation

By B.N. Frank

Tesla vehicles continue to be associated with accidents, fires, high costs, high levels of harmful radiation emissions, investigations, mechanical issues, lawsuits, recalls, and other various criticisms (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15). Recently the company issued another recall.

From Gov Tech:

Tesla Boombox Violation Leads to Recall of 600K Vehicles

In many Tesla vehicles, the boombox function can blast music outside of the car itself. The feature violates federal standards in that the noise can drown out pedestrian warning system sounds.

Deb Kiner, pennlive.com

(TNS) — Tesla is recalling 594,717 vehicles because the boombox function that allows music to be played externally may mask the required pedestrian warning noises.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, recalled are some 2020-2022 Model Y, Model X and Model S vehicles and 2017-2022 Model 3 vehicles.

The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard calls for “minimum sound requirements for hybrid and electric vehicles.” The boombox on the Tesla allows sound to be played through an external speaker while the vehicles is in motion. That may obscure the pedestrian warning system sound.

According to the NHTSA, Tesla will update the software “that will disable the Boombox functionality when the vehicles in in drive, neutral and reverse modes” free of charge.

Letters to owners will be mailed on June 6.

Boombox also will be disabled in vehicles when “Summon” or “Smart Summon” is in use. Those are optional driver features that allow the user to move the vehicle in and out of parking spaces while standing outside of it.

To be fair, battery fires, fires that are difficult to extinguish, and radiation emissions have been reported with other company’s Electric Vehicles (EVs) as well (see 1, 2, 3, 4).

Activist Post reports regularly about Teslas, autonomous vehicles (AVs), electric vehicles (EVs) and unsafe technology. For more information, visit our archives and the following websites:

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