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josefresco · 1 days ago

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Oarch · 1 days ago
I don't understand this 'recall' language. Isn't it just a software update?

"The company has released an over-the-air software update to fix the issue, it said."

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tromp · 1 days ago
As a service to the many people who still think of recalls as being physical in nature, they could call it a soft recall (as opposed to a hard recall).

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tzs · 22 hours ago
> Tesla on Friday said it was recalling 376,000 of its electric vehicles in the U.S., due to a failure of the power steering assist feature that could make the vehicles harder to steer, particularly at low speeds, raising the risk of a crash.

I'm curious what happens if this fails and you try to use FSD. Is it:

• Power steering assist only applies to manual steering so FSD notices nothing different,

• Power steering assist does assist FSD's steering, but FSD uses feedback from what the car actually does to decide how to steer and so it will compensate for the change in steering characteristics,

• It will notice something is off with the steering and tell the human to take over, or

• Something else.

HumblyTossed · 1 days ago
A recall on a car means that the manufacturer has identified a safety-related defect in the vehicle and is taking some action to correct it. It doesn't matter if it's OTA or the customer has to bring it in. Can we please stop pissing about the language every single time?