By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON – Tesla Inc filed a petition with U.S. auto security regulators saying that 612,000 autos produced since 2012 don’t absolutely adjust to federal security requirements as a result of shows may be switched from miles per hour to solely metric measurements, paperwork launched on Friday present.
The automaker requested the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA) to declare the noncompliance subject inconsequential to security, based on the company’s submitting.
Tesla stated it corrected the difficulty in manufacturing in September and that greater than 75% % of the affected U.S. autos have accepted the firmware replace launched in September.
Tesla stated if autos are set to solely show to kilometers, all capabilities tied to hurry restrict like Visitors Conscious Cruise Management and Velocity Help will “convert mapped knowledge from mph to km/h, ensuing within the car velocity robotically matching the suitable velocity restrict.”
Tesla added that car operators can change the show again to miles per hour, saying the choice is “simply situated within the show menu and isn’t buried in sub-menus.”
Tesla stated it has not acquired any experiences of crashes associated to this subject and famous that NHTSA granted two petitions for inconsequential remedy involving speedometer unit show noncompliance to Volkswagen AG in July and BMW in 2015.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; modifying by Jonathan Oatis)
