A little over a week ago, after some rather controversial statements, he made the announcement Tesla is far from experiencing its best times. In this report, he said that the testimony of a former employee of the company revealed quite serious problems in relation to Autopilot, that is, part of his experience with autonomous driving (along with Full Selft-Driving). Recall that Tesla has always been particularly ambitious when talking about its plans for autonomous driving.

I won’t rehash the history of the company in this regard, just think of Elon Musk has been promising level five autonomous driving for years, but today they’re still at level two and after the controversial decision to stop using various types of sensors that would base the operation of the system entirely on cameras, it is not overly pessimistic to think that it will take some time to take further steps.

In principle, settling on level two would be no more difficult than going back on the word of the company’s CEO, but of course that ceases to be the case when you find that Even at this level, Autopilot has serious problems, which greatly questions their safety. And while we’ve been talking about user testimonials, ex-employees and open investigations, elements that the company could try to refute to clean up its image, what’s coming has a worse solution for the company.

As I said, the company had to face many investigations by regulators, especially by the American one, and as we can read in Euronews, this is exactly where this important blow comes from, and that’s because Tesla will have to recall almost all the cars it has sold in the US since 2012, around two million. Reason? Autopilot is not working properly. Undoubtedly, a blow that goes exactly to one of the most questionable aspects of the brand’s cars.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the US regulator, Tesla vehicle systems overlook than the driver, even if the assisted/autonomous driving systems are active. To this end, other manufacturers integrate internal cameras that verify that the user is really paying attention to the road and traffic.

Measures affects all models 3, S, Y and sold for the past eleven years in the United States and the NHTSA has for the time being stored an OTA (Over The Air) software update of the affected Teslas, which will certainly limit the usage scenarios and/or scope of the same. . However, if errors are detected even after this update, the problem may have a much more complex solution.