• abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Legally they have to “declare” a recall, even when they can fix it with a couple of lines of code and an OTA. Recall doesn’t mean what you would expect it to me, it means “something the manufacturer needs to fix for safety reasons”.

      Hence why 98% of Tesla recalls are OTA (not actual stat, I’d have to look it up but it’s definitely in the 90s)

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know if it’s maybe a judicial thing or something or if they are technically required to do an official recall registered in some system, even if they can actually solve it OTA.

      I would suspect the rules around required recalls are not really updated to reflect the extended amount of issues that a vertical system integrator like Tesla can solve OTA.

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        1 year ago

        Ah, it’s one of those cases where de jure isn’t the same reality as de facto and the hack journalist pretends otherwise? Gotcha.

        I’m officially joining team “fuck Musk and his shoddily built rolling ipads, but that’s bullshit bordering on journalistic malpractice”, I guess 🤷

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            1 year ago

            I’m not complaining about you, I appreciate your answer and am sorry about the confusion lol

            I was complaining about the law and whomever made the statistics and wrote the article pretending that completely different things are the same, didn’t mean to shoot the messenger!