Exterior lighting: tail lights (Robocar)
Vehicle equipment recall 00E-059. NHTSA received ROBOCAR ENTERPRISES’s report on Sep 25, 2000.
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The short answer
NHTSA received ROBOCAR ENTERPRISES’s report on Sep 25, 2000. Copied from NHTSA on Oct 20, 2026.
Every line below is in NHTSA’s own words, with its source beside it.
What’s wrong with it?
WITHOUT THE REFLECTIVE MATERIAL IN THE REAR TAIL LAMP, A MOTORIST WITH THESE LAMPS MAY NOT SEEN BY THE MOTORIST BEHIND THEM. THE FOLLOWING MOTORIST CAN CRASH INTO THE LEADING MOTORIST POSSIBLY CAUSING SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH.
EQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION: REAR LAMP ASSEMBLIES WHICH WERE NOT MANUFACTURED WITH A REFLECTIVE MATERIAL AS REQUIRED UNDER FEDERAL MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY STANDARD NO. 108, “LAMPS, REFLECTIVE DEVICES, AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT.”
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- NHTSA’s part: Exterior lighting: tail lights.
What should you do?
ROBOCAR WILL GATHER UP THE NONCOMPLIANT LAMPS AND REFURBISH THEM.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- How to reach the firm: OWNER NOTIFICATION BEGAN OCTOBER 20, 2000.OWNERS SHOULD CONTACT ROBOCAR AT 1-626-945-9818, CONCERNING THESE NONCOMPLIANT LAMPS.ALSO CONTACT THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION’S AUTO SAFETY HOTLINE AT 1-888-DASH-2-DOT (1-888-327-4236).
Which ones are recalled?
NHTSA counts 500 items potentially involved, across everything this recall names.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
- Robocar Rear LampNHTSA gives no dates made
Who is recalling it?
- Made by ROBOCAR ENTERPRISES.
NHTSA, Recalls flat file before 2010. Released Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily.
What the record doesn’t say
- NHTSA’s recall file doesn’t say whether anyone was hurt.
- Which ones, by part or lot: the recall’s report on NHTSA’s site gives them where the maker did; this file gives part numbers only where its maker listed them.
- How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Recalls flat file before 2010 (FLAT_RCL_PRE_2010).
Released Oct 20, 2026 and checked Oct 20, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work).
Vehicle, car seat, tire and vehicle equipment recalls, owner complaints and crash ratings are from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Copied on Oct 20, 2026.