US regulators probe Tesla's incredible detaching steering wheel
Patel said in his complaint that his family received their 2023 Model Y on January 24, and just five days later Patel"was driving on highway and all the sudden steering wheel f[e]ll, was lucky enough there was no car behind," the NHTSA complaint document summarized, indicating that he was able to pull onto the divider and call police.
Photos included in Patel's post show the wheel sitting in his lap, having detached right at the top of the column.It's worth noting this isn't the first time Tesla has dealt with issues from loose or missing bolts - nor even the first time the problem has dogged late-year Model Y vehicles.[PDF] 4 percent of its 2022 and 2023 Model Y fleet - around 3,470 cars - in which the bolts holding the second-row seats weren't properly screwed in.
Bolts are the least of Musk Auto's concerns, though, as the NHTSA has been doing a deep dive into safety concerns around Tesla's Autopilot and full self driving software that has caused a number of accidents, including frequent collisions with roadside emergency vehicles.to a formal engineering analysis last year, leading to the software being"recalled" via an over-the-air patch to address concerns that Tesla software made the vehicles behave unsafely around intersections.
That investigation and associated recall have been back in the news lately, as yesterday NHTSA officials said they were launching a probe into a fatal February 18 Tesla accident after finding the Tesla Model S that slammed into a fire truck was likely using Autopilot software at the time.
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