Ford is recalling greater than 1 million automobiles within the US attributable to a software program problem inflicting the rearview digicam to show delayed, frozen, or clean photographs, as reported earlier by Reuters. The recall impacts a variety of automobiles, together with some made between 2021 and 2024, such because the Ford Bronco, Edge, and F-150.
The automaker is rolling out a software program replace that drivers can set up over the air or by visiting their native vendor. In a submitting with the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration, Ford says the “frozen or lacking rearview digicam picture can cut back the driving force’s view behind the car, growing the danger of a crash.”
Different impacted automobiles embody the 2023-2024 Escape, 2022-2024 Expedition, 2024 Mustang, 2021-2023 Mustang Mach E, 2022-2024 Lincoln Navigator, and 2021-2023 Lincoln Nautilus. You possibly can view the complete record of automobiles on the NHTSA’s web site.
Ford says it first obtained studies concerning the rearview digicam drawback in January, and its engineering workforce reproduced the problem in April. It additionally obtained a report of “a minor crash” allegedly attributable to the problem, “leading to property injury,” however says it’s not conscious of any accidents.
Final yr, NHTSA fined Ford $165 million for transferring too slowly on the same recollect it issued in 2020 and later expanded. The greater than 600,000 impacted automobiles had a rearview digicam that would typically present a “clean or distorted picture.” In April, Ford additionally issued two recollects affecting 289,000 Bronco, F-Collection, and Expedition fashions over defective rearview cameras that dealerships should substitute.
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