- Tesla recalls 63,619 Cybertrucks after finding LED lights could blind drivers.
- The issue involves parking light brightness, not the main headlight units.
- An OTA software update will fix the lights to meet federal standards.
Depending on your opinion of Cybertruck styling you might reasonably think that anything obscuring the slab-sided stainless steel eyesore from other drivers ought to be applauded. But the federal government has other ideas.
According to its regulations the lights on Tesla’s electric pcikup are too bright, and now Tesla is recalling thousands of Cybertrucks to tone them down.
A total of 63,619 of the EVs built between November 2013 and October 2025 – pretty much every Cybertruck – are subject to the recall, which relates to the front LEDs. It’s not the main headlights or full beams that are at fault, but the parking lights.
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Tesla discovered during an internal review in which it carried out photometric tests that the the LEDs put out too much light.
The government has rules about the volume of light that can be emitted and the Cybertruck exceeded those limits laid out in FMVSS 108. Too much light could distract drivers heading towards them, authorities say.
Engineers concluded that the truck’s software was inadvertently telling the LED light units to pump out too much of the bright stuff, so it’s a problem that only requires a software update rather than any complicated and expensive hardware swap.
And this being a tech-forward Tesla, that update can be handled OTA, and doesn’t require a trip to the dealer.
Tesla isn’t the first company forced to recall an expensive electric utility over too-bright lights. Last year Porsche recalled more than 3,000 Macan Electric SUVs for a similar fault, one that was also handled with a software update.
It’s all very different and much more high-tech than GMC’s 2022 solution to the dazzling lights on its big Terrain SUV. In that case each affected vehicle received an “applique”, which is just a fancy way of saying they got a sticker on the glass to block out some of the light.
