These are real recalls btw, for a safety feature that kills you. (airbag frag grenades)
I know some people have been conditioned that software rollbacks are recalls due to all the anti-Tesla articles.
I know some people have been conditioned that software rollbacks are recalls due to all the anti-Tesla articles.
It simply means, your car will not roll this feature back itself because it's not a software recall. Go turn it in.
Turns out it's confusing to overload the term "recall", and downright dangerous when it comes to overloading safety terms.
We're always going on about how misleading AutoPilot is as a term to the hypothetically confused consumer. But overloading recall isn't confusing?
I cannot help that the government for some reason chose to overload this term.
Illegal alien is also a legal term that sometimes requires distinction.
It's a PHYSICAL recall. Normally the articles cover that important detail up, so all you see is recall.
Why would you need to help that? Is there some reason you have to not call it a recall?
But yeah that facetiousness is why I said the statement above.
It's really easy to lookup Tesla safety ratings so I won't get dragged into what you're trying to do.
I'm not saying it's a good thing, but it's also pretty low rate-wise.
I don't really know what the point of that statement is though. Reads like part of a Boeing spokesman's speech.
There's been more (~35) deaths due to Tesla issues (fires, self-driving, etc) in a few years than in the 2 decades this problem airbag has existed.
Because if they are from the same news outlets as reports the other Tesla crashes, those are not always due to Tesla issues, and it always comes out they weren't because they have data on everything.
And other cars catch on fire in crashes and people burn to death in ICE cars. Fires are not exclusive to EVs. Shrapnel airbags on the other hand...
Plus I've seen at least 5+ videos where the safety features in a Tesla reacted faster than the driver and saved them, do we count that as a negative death?
Safety features that exist in other cars too? A base-model Corolla has pedestrian detection and collision avoidance in it as well.
And plenty of other manufacturers have similar systems.
But if the positives of any safety system don't count, then the negatives don't count against Tesla.
Because all cars have safety systems that could kill or save you under that logic.
2012-2016 Tesla Model S