Comment on Tesla Recalls 2 Million Cars to Fix Autopilot Safety Flaws

• airbreather@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Indeed, there was a time when they would just fix things without calling them “recalls”.

  Then, the government claimed that it was illegal for the company to update things like this — even over-the-air — without also calling them “recalls” and going through this exercise.

  newsweek.com/tesla-faces-114m-fines-if-it-doesnt-…

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  • markr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because tesla has to comply with the regulations just like every other manufacturer, and that includes notification of recall issues and remedies. The use of the term ‘recall’ is of course outdated, but that is irrelevant. How the manufacturer remedies the defect has always been up to the manufacturer, as long as they comply with the regulatory process, most of which is simply documentation, like issuing recall notices.

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    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      VW should call them bug fixes

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• reattach@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As another user said, it sounds like this is a NHTSA term:

  static.nhtsa.gov/odi/…/RCLRPT-23V838-8276.PDF

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  • ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks. That sure seems like a lazy and wrongheaded move to call an update a recall, but I don’t know why I expected more competent logic from the US govt.

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    • markr@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      actionable defects are ‘recalls’. How they are remedied is irrelevant.

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      • ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not really an accurate definition. A recall is a public call to RETURN a product that is defective. There is nothing being returned with a software update.

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• Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The press likes to call it a recall. Most of the time it’s just an OTA update.

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