Tesla is dealing with its second main U.S. recall in as many months. The EV maker was pressured to recall 356,309 Model 3 sedans and 119,009 Model S automobiles this week over doubtlessly harmful performance points with the automobiles’ rearview digital camera and the entrance hood according to two National Highway Traffic Safety Administration alerts. Combined, these 475,318 impacted automobiles are about equal to Tesla’s complete variety of automobiles delivered to prospects final 12 months, Bloomberg notes.

The NHTSA says the rearview digital camera harness on Model 3 automobiles might obtain injury when customers open and shut the trunk, which might in the end forestall drivers from having the ability to entry their rearview digital camera picture. The Model S situation in the meantime concerned a misaligned latch within the entrance trunk that the NHTSA says might forestall it from partaking. The digital camera situation impacts automobiles made between 2017-2020 whereas the entrance trunk situation impacts these made between 2014-2021.

Tesla didn’t instantly reply to Gizmodo’s request for remark.

The twin finish of the 12 months recollects come only one month after one other main Tesla recall and amid an investigation by the NHTSA over Tesla’s Passenger Play function which allegedly let some drivers play video video games even whereas in movement. (Tesla modified the performance of Passenger Play to stop drivers from taking part in the video games days after the NHTSA opened its preliminary investigation). Before that, Tesla discovered itself on the receiving finish of one other federal investigation into its Autopilot driver help function following a spate of crashes with first responder emergency automobiles.

It’s price noting that not all recollects are essentially created equally throughout the age of over-the-air software program updates. In the analog previous, a recall would have meant drivers pulling hundreds or a whole lot of hundreds of automobiles off the roads to ship them right into a restore store or native dealership. That’s nonetheless wanted for some points, however more and more, the varieties of technical glitches and screw-ups related to the shortly evolving tech inside of those automobiles can extra effectively and simply be solved remotely.

That was the case earlier this 12 months when Tesla issued a recall of 11,704 automobiles over a software program glitch that resulted in undesirable automated braking. That’s nonetheless undoubtedly a doubtlessly harmful malfunction worthy of a recall, however Tesla was in a position to patch it via an replace very like a bug repair on an app.

All that stated, it’s unclear if that very same method might apply to the latest pair of recollects. In each the Model and Model S circumstances, the recollects seem to contain the bodily components of the Tesla automobiles that will require precise in-personal restore or alternative. The NHTSA declined to remark a method or one other on the precise of how Tesla would go about addressing the recall.