Tens of thousands of self-driving Tesla cars have been recalled due to a glitch which allows them to travel through stop signs.
The US company will recall 53,822 U.S. vehicles with the company's Full Self-Driving (Beta) software.
There are concerns some some models are could out "rolling stops" rather than coming to a complete stop at some intersections posing a safety risk.
The US's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said the recall covers some 2016-2022 Model S and Model X, 2017-2022 Model 3, and 2020-2022 Model Y vehicles.
NHTSA said the feature may allow vehicles to travel through an all-way stop intersection - an American four-way stop is a traffic management system which requires vehicles on all the approaches to a road intersection to stop - without first coming to a halt.
Tesla will perform an over-the-air software update that disables the "rolling stop" functionality, the NHTSA said.
At the end of last year Tesla recalled close to half a million vehicles in the US to fix rear-view camera and boot issues that the regulators said could increase the risk of crashes.
It was found that opening and closing the boot could damage the cables attaching the rearview mirror on the Model 3, the NHTSA said.
The Model S recalled related to the latches securing the vehicle’s front trunk.
Tesla was not aware of any crashes, injuries, or deaths related to the issues with the recalled vehicles, according to the highway administrator.
Also in December last year questions were raised about the car maker's decision to allow games to be played by passengers on the front centre touchscreen.
The NHTSA opened a preliminary evaluation into 2017-2022 Tesla Model 3, S, X, and Y vehicles over the vehicle's "Passenger Play" feature the agency said "may distract the driver and increase the risk of a crash."
The body said it had "confirmed that this capability has been available since December 2020 in Tesla 'Passenger Play'-equipped vehicles."
Before then, the game feature "was enabled only when the vehicle was in park."
On Dec. 23, Tesla told NHTSA it would stop allowing video games to be played on vehicle screens while its cars are moving, the agency said.
Tesla informed NHTSA a software update will lock the "Passenger Play" feature and make it unusable when the vehicle is in motion, NHTSA said.
Tesla vehicle owner Vince Patton, who lives near Portland, Oregon, told the NHTSA about the problem after watching a Youtube video of a Tesla owner playing while driving.
He drove his own 2021 Tesla Model 3 around an empty parking lot with a game called “Sky Force Reloaded” on the front screen to see if the claims were true.
“I was just dumbfounded that, yes, sure enough, this sophisticated video game came up,” Patton, a 59-year-old retired broadcast journalist, said at the time.
He also claimed he could browse the internet while his car was moving.
More to follow.
