Tesla is issuing a software update for hundreds of thousands of its electric vehicles in a bid to satisfy a federal safety recall.
After federal highway-safety authorities found that Tesla sedans equipped with the company’s oft-criticized “Full Self-Driving” software could cause the vehicles to act unsafely, the company agreed to issue a software update for vehicles with the $15,000 FSD add-on.
The FSD system being tested by Tesla owners on public roads across the U.S. in a beta program might cause crashes as it “may allow the vehicle to act unsafe around intersections, such as traveling straight through an intersection while in a turn-only lane, entering a stop sign-controlled intersection