You don’t issue a physical recall over a software glitch though. They’ve had windshields fly out of their frames at highway speed, steering wheels come off, catastrophic lower ball joint separation, vehicles leaving their factory with missing brake pads…software updates only take you so far
Comment on Tesla Identified As Most Recalled Car Brand, Mercedes & Toyota Least
Sivar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah only with a Tesla you don’t have to drive to a Tesla shop and wait for an hour or even days, you get an OTA update.
WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
noneabove1182@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah there’s definitely been some aggregious recall issues, but the problem is the stars include minor things that only required a quick OTA, so it skews the numbers awkwardly and means we can’t properly judge the real problems they had
If they separated the numbers, we might see that either Tesla has very few real recalls, Tesla actually does have a lot of real recalls but also happens to have software ones, or it’s about normal
And without separating all we can do is guess
DoomBot5@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But the software updates are the majority of the recalls here.
WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh for sure. Definitely not disagreeing with that
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
steering wheels come off
Plus they have enough room for mother-in-law. Elon has no good car ideas
a_spooky_specter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s not a benefit really. What if they send a bad update.
BB69@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hasn’t happened as of yet.
What if a legacy manufacturer doesn’t install a corrective part appropriately and exacerbates the issue?
jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It’s an AMAZING benefit. You get in your car in the morning and it says stuff like “we’ve improved the ability of your auto dimming headlights to detect oncoming traffic”, or “we’ve added a setting to automatically turn on your headlights when your windshield wipers are on”, or “we’ve added an ability to move the blindspot camera window”.
A traditional car never “improves”. If your windshield wiper rain detector sucks, well too bad. Maybe when you buy another car in 10 years it’ll be better. Where in cars with OTA updates, they are constantly improved. Like I said, it’s an amazing benefit and I would imagine most other car companies are looking to adopt this model.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
My computer is the most recalled product in history
adeoxymus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It be better if they distinguished between both types of recall, it appears they are grouped together.