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As a Tesla owner it is relevant to me whether I have to drive to a service center, or ignore it and do nothing.
by bpodgursky 2y ago
As a Tesla owner it is relevant to me whether I have to drive to a service center, or ignore it and do nothing.
- avgDev 2y agoThe recall will clearly state what the remedy is? It is there because whatever the issue is it can potentially affect safety. In this case a power steering issue is A SAFETY issue. Therefore, a RECALL is issued. Why is this so hard to comprehend?
- saalweachter 2y agoMy vague understanding is that it also exists because the NHTSA notices a problem and demands the manufacturer to fix it. Which is to say, my understanding is that if Tesla had noticed the issue first, and fixed it immediately, then no recall would have been issued. And since it's an OTA update that Tesla can push whenever, it was totally within Tesla's power to fix it before someone at the NHTSA went through the trouble of issuing a recall. Tesla owners should be pissed at Tesla for outsourcing software Q&A to the NHTSA, not at the NHTSA for issuing recalls when it finds bugs.
- caconym_ 2y agoAnd as a person who trusts mass market automobiles with my own safety and that of my family I could not care less if Tesla owners experience some kind of weird insecurity (?) when their OTA updates are described using a term of art with a specific contextual meaning, whose existence arguably makes us all safer. Software issues with automobiles are just as capable of injuring or killing people as mechanical issues, so regardless of the remedy, they should be treated with equal severity from a regulatory perspective. We do not need a new word for OTA recalls just to safeguard the feelings of Tesla owners and others who benefit from their convenience.
- bpodgursky 2y agoIt's quite literally not recalling anything. Think about what the word actually means.
- caconym_ 2y agoIrrelevant. Google "term of art".