Tesla has filed a petition with U.S. automotive safety regulators saying that 612,000 vehicles produced since 2012 do not fully comply with federal safety standards because monitors can be switched from miles per hour for metric measurements only, documents released on Friday show. -market.
However, the automaker asked the National Road Traffic Safety Administration to declare the issue of non-compliance irrelevant to safety, according to the agency’s document.
Tesla said it fixed the production problem in September and that more than 75 percent of affected US vehicles accepted the firmware update released in September.
Tesla said that if vehicles are configured to display only kilometers, all functions linked to the speed limit, such as Traffic Aware Cruise Control and Speed Assist, “will convert mapped data from mph to km / h, resulting in speed vehicle automatically matching the appropriate speed limit. “
Tesla added that vehicle operators can change the display back to miles per hour, saying the option is “easily located in the display menu and is not buried in submenus”.
Tesla said it has received no reports of accidents related to this problem and noted that NHTSA has granted two petitions for inconsequential treatment involving failure to comply with the speedometer unit display for Volkswagen AG in July and BMW in 2015.