Hyundai’s Remote Smart Parking Assistant allows Hyundai owners to pull its cars in and out of a parking spot with ease. The feature helps Hyundai owners to perform parallel and perpendicular parking maneuvers, as well as pulling out from the spot.
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“We are trying to resolve social issues and inconveniences coming from the lack of parking space through technology,” said an insider of Hyundai Motor.
However, it seems like that the convenient feature that Hyundai offers is running through some defects. This is when the NHTSA decided to announce a new recall.
On April 16, 2020, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sent a letter to Mr. Wayne Gates, director of Hyundai USA, saying that Hyundai should review its models – 2020 Nexo and Hyundai Sonata – regarding the problem with the electrical system of the two models.
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The 2020 Hyundai Sonata
The problem includes Hyundai’s Remote Smart Parking Assist (RSPA) software that may fail to prevent vehicle movement upon detection of an RSPA system malfunction – which could lead to unintended vehicle movements.
NHTSA said that there could be around 11,870 units affected by this electrical system malfunction.
“The initial discovery in Korea was an anomaly that was extremely rare and difficult to replicate and more investigating was required to determine if it was a problem that needed to be addressed with a recall,” Hyundai spokesman Michael Stewart told Consumer Reports in an email as a response to the ongoing software error.
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The 2020 Hyundai NEXO
NHTSA required Hyundai Motor America to submit a draft owner notification letter to its office in no less than five days prior to mailing the letter to Hyundai’s customers.
In response, Hyundai USA will notify owners that its dealers will reprogram the RSPA software – which will be free of charge. The recall work is expected to begin on June 4, 2020.
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