Now, NHTSA has taken the unusual steps of telling Tesla it must recall the 158,000 affected vehicles, according to Reuters. “[D]uring our review of the data, Tesla provided confirmation that all units will inevitably fail given the memory device’s finite storage capacity,” NHTSA told Reuters. NHTSA also noted that Tesla had attempted to resolve the issue with software patches, but these have been “procedurally and substantially insufficient” and the law requires automakers to recall vehicles that contain safety defects.