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Tesla headlights were twice as bright as legal

NHTSA ordered a Tesla headlight recall for 19,900 cars with beams nearly twice the legal brightness limit.

Ellsworth Toohey
Aug 07, 2026
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Tesla headlight recall — Alexander-93 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Tesla headlight recall — Alexander-93 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

Tesla told federal regulators that the headlights on 19,900 Model 3 and Model Y cars were up to nearly twice as bright as the law allows, then argued it shouldn't have to fix them because the defect was "inconsequential" to safety. Two years later the National Highway Traffic Safety…

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