The more structural obstacles there are to pushing out patches, the fewer patches will be pushed out. The company would have an incentive to rigorously test the

The more structural obstacles there are to pushing out patches, the fewer patches will be pushed out. The company would have an incentive to rigorously test the patches before sending them out. Currently, with OTA patches, you can throw out any patch you want because it's self-serve. But if customers were inconvenienced by having to go to a service center for an update, Tesla would have a larger incentive to get things right the first time. It would damage their brand reputation if a customer had to go to a service center for a patch and then turn around and schedule two more appointments to download bugfix patches.