The passengers of almost 500 Australian Tesla owners could be at risk until they download an urgent software fix for airbags.
Tesla has warned 469 owners who bought Model X cars sold this year not to have anyone in the front passenger seat after finding the airbag doesn't deploy.
"Although we're not aware of a single customer car that has had an issue with it, there was an anomaly with the passenger airbag in a right-hand-drive Model X that was part of a routine internal test this week," it told customers in a note supplied to AAP on Thursday.
The car company says it found the issue related to the software controlling the passenger airbags in right-hand-drive Model X cars.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says the car's restraint control module was unable to recognise when a passenger is in the front seat.
"The RCM doesn't receive a value that it recognises as valid so it will not deploy the passenger front airbag in the event of a crash," the ACCC says on its website.
Tesla says an over-the-air software update will be available to download this weekend and there was no need to bring cars in for service.
It recommends drivers, as a precaution, don't allow their front passenger seat to be occupied until the software update is installed.
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