Comment on Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoPut your hate for Tesla aside for a moment. If a car company can fix an issue with a simple software update, it’s way more convenient for both the customer and the manufacturer. Quality control of an update is a separate issue but I don’t imagine there’s a difference whether your car updates itself or gets taken in for the update- the same patch gets applied in either case.
deranger@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not Tesla that I hate. It’s shipping products too quickly.
The inconvenience is the point. I want people to be inconvenienced, myself included. That means people complain to one another. I’ll know which models suck simply by talking to people around me. I do not want quiet stealthy patches for things like an accelerator pedal. Either do it right or pay the price. We used to make cars without hot fixes, we don’t need to start. It will allow auto manufacturers to further cut corners and push for faster releases with less testing, and we pay the price with our lives.
Toribor@corndog.social 7 months ago
I can’t wait to live in a world where my own damn car wont start because someone forgot to renew a cert.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 7 months ago
Is that borne out in the data though? It seems modern vehicles are way safer and more reliable compared to older vehicles.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Calling it a recall or an update won’t change that. Enshittification is happening everywhere all the time anyway.
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Think of the inverse though- it used to be that in every case when your car had an issue you needed to either take it in yourself or have the technical knowhow to fix it yourself. I do agree that it’s a slippery slope for automakers to get lazy and cut corners, but I think stricter regulation is the better solution than forcing an unnecessary inconvenience onto the customers.
chakan2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That knowledge is mostly trivial. 7/10 repairs a regular Joe could do. Or worse comes to worse you can take it to a mechanic of your choosing.
I’ll take that level of service.
With the Tesla model, you very like end up with a 100k brick that no one can work on except very expensive very specialized very limited service centers.
A Tesla battery is expensive…now look at install costs. And if you’re not using an authorized installer, you’re locked out of the supercharger network.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m amazed how many people here drive Teslas. I think there’s only one Tesla dealership in the entire state. It would take a good 2 hours to get there from here. I guess they’re okay with having to pay for a tow all that way if something seriously goes wrong since there’s no local mechanic who will be able to fix it.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah no - that’s not what my mechanic tells me. It’s more like “you should buy a new car and sell this one”.
kinkles@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s also what I meant when I said “taking it in.” In either case you’re taking your car somewhere to get it repaired for X hours instead of applying an update at your home.
We aren’t talking about batteries.
I just think there’s more nuance to the situation and saying that cars should be as inconvenient as possible to fix isn’t a good solution to lazy auto software that requires future patching. Rigorous safety testing and regulation around car software sounds like a better plan to me- automakers will be held to really high standards and the consumers will still benefit from simple OTA patches to fix their vehicles.