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- usa@lemmy.ml
Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue::Warning lights on the Tesla vehicles are hard to read, raising the risk of a crash, according to traffic safety regulators.
Don’t get me wrong, I care. It’s just a recall traditionally meant the owner bring in a vehicle for a material repair.
A software update requiring an owner to bring a vehicle to a dealer to upgrade also applies.
But Teslas have automatic wireless updates. I don’t think the word recall is appropriate as it doesn’t require any user intervention as far as I’m aware. Call it a software update like everything else.
Simply because OTA updates and large screens on cars are so new. It’s a recall because that’s the word NHTSA uses whenever there is something the manufacturer is forced to fix, it doesn’t matter how they fix it.
Simply because OTA updates and large screens on cars are so new. It’s a recall because that’s the word NHTSA uses whenever there is something the manufacturer is forced to fix, it doesn’t matter how they fix it.