The Italian-American carmaker has told that as many as 41 injuries are linked to the recall in incidents where motorists have assumed that the vehicles had been placed in park mode. The sport utility vehicles are covered by the recall are the 2012-2014 Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 sedans and 2014-2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Nearly 811,000 vehicles in the US are affected along with about 52,000 in Canada and nearly 17,000 more are in Mexico and almost 250,000 vehicles are outside North America. Fiat Chrysler has stated that it will fix the vehicles to keep them stationary under certain circumstances and even when the driver fails to put them in park mode.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has said testing of the vehicles' electronic gear shifter has found it was "not intuitive" and the agency has said it provides poor tactile and visual feedback to the driver by increasing the potential for unintended gear selection.
Fiat Chrysler the world's seventh largest automaker has said that it has begun equipping the affected vehicles with a new shift-lever design in 2015. In July last year the Fiat Chrysler has recalled 1.4 million vehicles in the US and after hackers has proved that they could take control of an SUV over the internet and drive it into a ditch.
