Ah, the old "make it harder for customers to install safety updates" argument. > The company would have an incentive to rigorously test the patches before send

Ah, the old "make it harder for customers to install safety updates" argument. > The company would have an incentive to rigorously test the patches before sending them out. This doesn't stop traditional automotive companies from releasing buggy software (they have far more recalls per unit time than Tesla), and anyway the issue you noted above wasn't a bug, it was a perfectly safe _optional_ feature that NHTSA didn't like.