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Safety issues are recalled, so you would see them regardless.

Since Tesla has less than 1 million cars built IIRC, it's actually much worse of a problem. Other automakers have hundreds of millions of cars on the road with different designs, each with potential problems.

Yet something safety critical like a roof falling off happens rarely, but get recalled.

Has there been any Tesla recalls?

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10.97M cars 2019 VW for example.

I’m not seeing this VW recall. Are you referring to Takata airbags? That’s an old recall but a really bad one, caused by Takata not the car manufacturers. The ECM getting updated for emissions reasons? I just took my car in for that one during my regular service, it’s a service bulletin not a recall.

The car makers knew the liabilities of using ammonium nitrate as an airbag propellant. It was just cheaper. It's not like Takata swapped from a stable propellant to one which could be stable if everything was done just right on their own without telling anyone.

That doesn’t answer my question first off and moves the goal posts elsewhere secondly. The issue here is there isn’t a VW recall I can find that he’s talking about, the airbag issue was an industry wide thing and not tied to a specific manufacturer, whereas this issue is tied directly to Tesla moving fast and breaking things still.

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