Tesla has a slight problem on its hands and while the problem sounds bad, correcting it is seemingly rather easy.

The problem appears to be with the the braking system in as many as 11 704 Tesla vehicles according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the US.

So what is the issue? Back in October Tesla released firmware version 2021.36.5.2 which introduced a software communication disconnect between two on-board chips which control the vehicle waking up from Sentry mode or Summon Standby Mode.

“This communication disconnect can result in the video neural networks that operate on that chip to run less consistently than expected. The inconsistency can produce negative object velocity detections when other vehicles are present, which in turn can lead to false FCW [forward collision warnings] and AEB [automatic emergency brake] events,” the NHTSA wrote.

The good news is that fixing this issue simply required updating the vehicle’s software. That update was issued a few days after the problem was discovered and according to a report from the NHTSA “all vehicles but for 17” have downloaded this update. For owners running firmware version 2021.36.5.3, no further action is required.

This is rather great especially if you’ve had to contend with a vehicle recall before. While sometimes the process can be simple, more often than not, it’s a time sink.

Are we hopeful that one day soon everything related to vehicles will be as simple as issuing an over the air update? Absolutely, but we’re not any sort of illusion that every problem requires a software update.

Tesla and the NHTSA say that no incidents leading to crashes or injuries were brought to their attention as a result of the firmware fault.