Tesla Can’t Avoid Recall Fix for Cars With Overly Bright Headlights
Drivers who’ve been blinded by the lights, it’s not just your imagination. There are cars on the road with headlights that are so bright they’re illegal.
Two years after Tesla informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that low-beam headlights on some Tesla EVs exceed brightness limits, the company’s move to make those headlights street-legal has failed. The NHTSA denied Tesla’s petition to avoid a recall, meaning the company will need to issue a fix for nearly 20,000 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles from 2017 to 2023 for a problem the company called “inconsequential.”
A representative for Tesla didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Tesla argued in its petition that because the bright lighting in question falls outside of the field of vision of oncoming drivers, “noncompliance is inconsequential as it relates to motor vehicle safety.”
In its response, NHTSA associate administrator for enforcement Eileen Sullivan wrote,...
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