Enlarge / A 2015 Ram 1500, one of the models affected by this recall. (credit: FCA)
Dodgy software code controlling side airbags and safety belt pretensioners is responsible for a recall affecting over a million Ram pickup trucks. On Friday, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) announced that it will be recalling Ram 1500 and 2500 trucks (model years 2013-2016) and Ram 3500 trucks (model years 2014-2016) beginning in June in order to rectify the problem.
The software error, which could prevent side airbag deployment and belt pretensioning in cases where a vehicle rolls over following an underbody impact—say, hitting road debris or something when off-roading—has already been implicated in one death. Although the code has not been conclusively fingered as the culprit, FCA says it is issuing the recall proactively.
A similar issue forced General Motors to recall more than 4 million vehicles in 2016.
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