Overview
- The Office of Defects Investigation broadened the case after identifying 13 related crashes, including one fatality reported in 2023.
- Regulators say incident data show failures to detect visibility degradation from glare, fog or dust, with alerts arriving only moments before impact.
- In reviewed crashes, Full Self-Driving lost track of or never detected a lead vehicle when camera performance was impaired.
- The engineering analysis authorizes NHTSA to evaluate Tesla Vision under similar conditions and scrutinize Tesla’s software updates to degradation detection.
- The probe spans an estimated 3,203,754 vehicles across 2016–2026 Models S and X, 2017–2026 Model 3, 2020–2026 Model Y and 2023–2026 Cybertruck, and a recall could follow if a defect is confirmed.