Tesla doesn’t publicly list sales data for the Cybertruck, but thanks to a new recall issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, we may now have a rough idea of how many have been sold since the vehicle went on sale at the end of 2023. Tesla is recalling 2024-2026 model year Cybertruck vehicles that are running software prior to 2025.38.3, and this potentially impacts 63,619 vehicles built between November 13, 2023, and October 11, 2025. Those dates essentially confirm that the entire production run is affected. The reason for the recall? “The vehicle controller software may cause the front parking lights to be too bright and exceed the maximum light output, adversely affecting the vision of other drivers.”
Why The Bright Lights Are A Problem
As per the recall, these excessively bright park light systems fail to comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108, which covers lamps, reflective devices, and associated equipment. With excessively bright park lights that exceed the maximum permissible intensity prescribed by the safety standard, the Cybertruck may distract and dazzle oncoming drivers, potentially increasing the risk of a crash. The problem was discovered on the 1st of this month, when an internal review revealed that the vehicle controller software may have been inadvertently commanding the parking lamp photometric intensity to be greater than design specifications, and a week later, Tesla completed its investigation and decided to issue a voluntary recall.
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A Fix Has Already Been Issued
Fortunately, no collisions, injuries, or fatalities related to the problem have come to Tesla’s attention, and since this is little more than a bad setting, owners’ vehicles can be remedied with a simple over-the-air software update. In fact, the recall report filed with the NHTSA says that a remedy has already begun to roll out as of the 8th of this month, so the engineers surely acted fast. However, remedy owner notifications will only go out a little more than a month from now, on the 13th of December. On a tangentially related note, that’s around the same time that another long-awaited and much-hyped Tesla product is claimed to be making its grand entrance: the Tesla Roadster is supposedly going to be showcased before 2025 comes to an end, with the automaker’s chief designer claiming that deliveries will take place within the next two years. Hopefully, the Roadster will be less recall-prone than the Cybertruck, which suffered seven recalls last year alone, plus one this year for detaching body panels.
