Tesla and the US Highway Safety Authority (NHTSA) have issued a call to the workshop of 1,096,762 vehicles of the North American streetcar manufacturer. The problem is the power windows on the doors which, in some cases, may not work properly and crushing of fingers, hands, or whatever gets squeezed between the rising glass and the non-moving bodywork.
Shortly after builders invented power windows, they quickly realized they had created a guillotine on wheels, capable of brutally cutting or squeezing anything between the glass and the door frame, or the bodywork, if not. the first existed. The solution found, forced by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic, consisted of equipping the electric windows with sensors that detect when there is something to squeeze through the glass, which reverses the motor and eliminates the problem. The calibration of these sensors on some Teslas is incorrect, which can lead to issues. hence the advertised memory.
Fixing this problem is relatively easy, either by replacing the sensor or correcting its sensitivity. But, for most manufacturers, this would require the scheduling of visits to the workshop of more than a million vehicles, which if the intervention requires an hour, implies 1,096,762 hours, 45,698 days, 1,523 months or 126 years, time that would be necessary to divide by the number of workshops and mechanics involved.
Tesla resolved the matter as usual, i.e. sent an update through the air for all models involved, which took approximately seconds, enough to hit the “send” button and the new program reaches all customers.
The models involved in this memory are Model S manufactured between January 19, 2021 and September 16, 2022, Model X from February 12, 2021 to September 14, 2022, Model 3 from February 2, 2017 to September 14, 2022 and Model Ys from November 26, 2019 to September 14, 2022.
Source: Observadora
