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NHTSA forces recall of 362,758 Full Self-Driving Beta vehicles

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Record

CompanyTesla
Categoryav trucking
Typerecall
Date
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scale362,758 vehicles
Confidencehigh
VerificationCited source on file; not independently re-verified
SourcePBS NewsHour

What happened

NHTSA required Tesla to recall all vehicles running FSD Beta software after finding it could act unsafely at intersections (speeding through yellow lights, failing to fully stop, incorrect lane behavior); Tesla halted new FSD Beta rollouts and issued an over-the-air fix.

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10212016 S5: 11162018 S5: 11182019 S5: 11192022 S3: 12022 S5: 12222023 S3: 12023 S4: 12023 S5: 24232024 S2: 22024 S3: 22024 S4: 12024 S5: 49242025 S1: 12025 S2: 152025 S3: 22025 S4: 22025 S5: 121252026 S2: 162026 S3: 42026 S5: 12126
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3496982016 S5: 11162018 S5: 11182019 S5: 11192021 S1: 11212022 S2: 12022 S3: 32022 S5: 15222023 S1: 12023 S2: 12023 S3: 32023 S4: 42023 S5: 211232024 S1: 42024 S2: 92024 S3: 72024 S4: 22024 S5: 426242025 S1: 62025 S2: 5362025 S3: 132025 S4: 42025 S5: 4563252026 S1: 22026 S2: 6582026 S3: 312026 S4: 42026 S5: 369826
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