Leading luxury-car major, Mercedes-Benz AG, has reportedly recalled around 1.3 million vehicles of model years between 2016 and 2021 over a technical flaw in the car’s eCall emergency calling platform. For the record, eCall is a system which is either activated automatically or through a button, and provides information such as the direction in which the car was travelling, GPS location of the car, and the number of people in the car. This system has been a standard Mercedes-Benz feature across the company’s car models since 2014.
According to reliable sources, the company discovered that a fault in the software may lead to a scenario where the feature would fa