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While federal law still requires manufacturers to send recall notifications by first-class mail all these years later, NHTSA said in a statement that it’s working on a rulemaking to also require electronic recall notification. — Reuters

A few weeks from now, Tesla will notify owners of almost 1.1 million vehicles about a safety issue the electric-car maker already started addressing last month.

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration didn’t force the manufacturer to make the fix - Tesla discovered the window glitch through internal testing and determined it warranted a voluntary recall. But the company is required by law to send out letters to each owner’s mailboxes, and deem this a recall, even if it remedied the issue with an over-the-air (OTA) software update.