NHTSA safety recall 23V-838 — over-the-air Autosteer driver-monitoring update — p2026-09-06-116

remedy · p2026-09-06-116 · validated

NHTSA safety recall 23V-838 — over-the-air Autosteer driver-monitoring update

This recall is critically needed to make Tesla's cars safer, but it is egregiously overdue.

tech: tesla-autopilot
acts on: Autosteer controls insufficient to prevent foreseeable driver misuse, with crashes in which Autopilot was engaged
the remedy: NHTSA safety recall 23V-838 — over-the-air Autosteer driver-monitoring update
from: 2023-12-12
region: US
people: 2,000,000 vehicles recalled (2023-12-13)
effect: — vehicles updated (2023-12-13) — software update adding driver-attention warnings, stricter attentiveness checks and a one-week Autosteer suspension policy for misuse
source kind: primary
the statistic: Recall 23V-838, filed 12 December 2023, covers 2,031,220 Tesla Model S/X/3/Y vehicles with Autosteer. No post-recall measurement of crash rates was found within budget, so the effect restored is unmeasured.
source: https://www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-releases/markey-blumenthal-statement-on-teslas-recall-of-2-million-vehicles-with-autopilot-system
proposed by: researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, era-2020-2023
received: 2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report: impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-era-2020-2023.md

Rulings, in order

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