US will look at sudden acceleration complaints involving 500,000 Tesla vehicles

WASHINGTON: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Friday it will review a petition asking the agency to formally investigate and recall 500,000 Tesla Inc vehicles over sudden unintended acceleration reports.

The petition cited media reports of crashes attributed to unintended acceleration and complaints filed with NHTSA.Many of the complaints report sudden acceleration incidents when attempting to park vehicles in a garage or at a curb. Others claimed the sudden acceleration happened while in traffic or when using driver assistance systems and led to crashes.

Another complaint said a Tesla driver in Andover, Massachusetts was approaching her garage door"when the car suddenly lurched forward: and"went through the garage door destroying two garage doors." The Tesla stopped when it hit the garage's concrete wall. The 2,000 vehicles covered by the September petition to the NHTSA received a battery management software upgrade in May in response to a potential flaw that could trigger non-crash-related fires. A lawyer who filed the petition, Edward Chen, told Reuters in October that he strongly believes"this number is much larger than 2,000." The review is ongoing.

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