Before I bought a car, these articles would come out every now and then "X recalls 500 million cars over blinking light on dash" and I'd think that was crazy. "They just refund the owners of the car? But what if they don't want to give them up". Then I bought one and it turns out everyone gets these recalls all the time. I'm sitting at my desk and there's a Subaru Emissions Recall WRA-26 right now next to me. And the Tesla recalls are just an OTA update?
Recalls are just automotive industry term for 'errata'. It's like if we said "Google issues recall for misaligned CSS on Updates tab in Gmail" or "Slack issues recall for UX changes: all customers encouraged to Cmd-R". I can't believe this is news.
> Tesla (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Tesla Motors (Beijing) Co., Ltd. will apply warning labels free of charge to vehicles covered by the recall. They will also use an over-the-air (OTA) update to upgrade the window-control software, adding a strategy to lower the windows after an accident, thereby reducing the safety risk. Because some vehicles are already equipped with the warning labels, those vehicles will not need to have the labels applied again.
Okay, so they'll put some stickers and update the software OTA. I mean, come on. What are we talking about here.
Recalls are just automotive industry term for 'errata'. It's like if we said "Google issues recall for misaligned CSS on Updates tab in Gmail" or "Slack issues recall for UX changes: all customers encouraged to Cmd-R". I can't believe this is news.