Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue
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Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue::Warning lights on the Tesla vehicles are hard to read, raising the risk of a crash, according to traffic safety regulators.
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The recall is an official designation. And yeah, pretty cool with Tesla that a lot of the recalls are done through firmware updates.
If I’m a shareholder, this is news I would want to know about. Just because you don’t care doesn’t mean others feel the same.
I don't think it's about not wanting to hear it, more so about the language used, that feels overboard. I feel it's a combination of a car industry regulator in need of updating their terminology and news outlets looking to make everything sound sensational - the end result leaving you feel like you've been mislead about what's actually going on.
Exactly. Good example is my Ram 3500 diesel. Just got a recall and I have to drive it in, and have them update something that'll take 1-2 hours to fix that bullshit emission issue Ram got caught fucking up. That's far more of an issue but it's still rather minor.
Don't get me wrong, I care. It's just a recall traditionally meant the owner bring in a vehicle for a material repair.
A software update requiring an owner to bring a vehicle to a dealer to upgrade also applies.
But Teslas have automatic wireless updates. I don't think the word recall is appropriate as it doesn't require any user intervention as far as I'm aware. Call it a software update like everything else.
Simply because OTA updates and large screens on cars are so new. It's a recall because that's the word NHTSA uses whenever there is something the manufacturer is forced to fix, it doesn't matter how they fix it.