A dissection of Tesla’s voluntary recall: What Tesla agreed to as remedy for its vehicles’ Autopilot defect, and what they are getting away with.
What’s at stake:
After the national safety regulator’s multi-year investigation into nearly 1,000 crashes involving Tesla’s Autopilot, Tesla agreed to a “voluntary recall” of two million cars — almost all its vehicles sold in the United States since 2021. A big question, however, is what exactly Tesla is prepared to do to fix the safety defect.
This was a historic, hard-won victory for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
But Tesla scored an even bigger win.