Tesla has filed a petition with the U.S. Motor Safety Regulators, saying that 612,000 vehicles manufactured since 2012 do not fully meet federal safety standards because the screens can be switched from miles per hour to metric measurements only.
However, the carmaker has asked the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to declare the issue of non-compliance unsafe, according to the agency’s submission.
Tesla said it fixed the issue in production in September and that more than 75 percent of the U.S. vehicles affected accepted the firmware update released in September.
Tesla said if vehicles were shown only on kilometers, all functions linked to the speed limit, such as traffic-aware cruise control and speed assist, would “convert mapped data from mph to km / h, resulting in the car speed automatically matching the applicable speed limit. . ”
Tesla added that vehicle companies can change the screen again in kilometers per hour, saying that the option is “easily located in the display menu and not buried in submenus.”
Tesla said it had not received any reports of accidents related to this issue, noting that NHTSA had granted two petitions for insignificant treatment, which the speedometer unit in July and BMW in 2015 disobeyed.