Tesla filed a China recall adding cabin-camera driver monitoring to 2.74 million cars
China's market regulator published a recall plan under which Tesla will add in-cabin camera monitoring to 2,740,642 domestically built cars whose existing system did not warn drivers who looked away from the road.
Tesla’s Shanghai entity filed a recall plan with China’s State Administration for Market Regulation covering 2,740,642 domestically built Model 3 and Model Y cars, the regulator said in a notice published on August 21. The cars were built between March 4, 2019 and December 7, 2025, and the recall took effect immediately.
The regulator described the defect in terms of what the cars failed to tell their drivers. With the assisted steering function switched on and the vehicle in its combined driving assistance state, the existing attention-monitoring mechanism was not sufficient to prompt a driver whose gaze had left the road. If the driver did not intervene in time, the notice said, the risk of a collision could rise.
The remedy is software alone. Tesla will supply a free over-the-air update that adds in-cabin camera monitoring on top of the steering-wheel torque monitoring already fitted, so that a driver using combined driving assistance is prompted to keep watching the road and the surrounding traffic. The notice stated that owners would not need to visit a service center. Cars that cannot take the update remotely are to be handled through Tesla service centers instead.
The filing was the second of two Tesla recalls carried in the same notice. A separate pair of campaign numbers covered 2,975,910 domestic and imported cars over an interior emergency door release that is close in color to the trim and hard to identify after a severe crash. Tesla said it would notify owners through its mobile app, text messages and email.