Investors believe that the electric car company led by Elon Musk will benefit from his support of the president-elect.
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration said it was looking into what Elon Musk’s electric car company called the full self-driving system.
The General Motors subsidiary reached a settlement with the main auto safety regulator after one of its self-driving taxis struck a pedestrian in San Francisco last year.
The National Highway Safety Administration said it had concerns about how Tesla handled the recall based on recent crashes and testing of cars that had been updated.
A federal auto safety agency said the accelerator pedal on the pickup truck, sales of which began in late 2023, could become stuck, increasing the risk of accidents.
The vehicles were recalled because the font size on a warning lights panel was too small. Tesla will address the issue with a software update.
The recall follows a similar move by the company in the United States to upgrade the cars’ Autopilot feature.
Federal regulators said the automaker had not done enough to make sure that drivers were paying attention while using Autopilot.
Under pressure from federal regulators, the company has agreed to recall two million cars to update its driver-assistance system. The cars will be updated over cellular networks.
An employee who was fired after expressing safety concerns leaked personnel records and sensitive data about driver-assistance software.