The recall covers certain Models Y, S and X from the 2023 model year. All are equipped with “Full Self-Driving” computer 4.0 and run software version 2023.44.30 through 2023.44.30.6 or 2023.44.100.
The company says in documents posted by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that software instability may prevent the camera image from showing images while the Teslas are in reverse. The safety agency says that can increase the risk of a crash.
Tesla says in documents that it is not aware of any crashes or injuries. Documents say the problem has been fixed with an online software update.
Owners will be notified by letter starting March 22.
While this is technically a recall because it relates to vehicles, it is more akin to Apple releasing a fix to iOS because the selfie-cam sometimes doesn’t work.
Your argument is doing more to convince me that not every recall is newsworthy than this is actually a big deal.
And I fucking hate Musk and Tesla. Show me a 200000 vehicle recall that actually pulls cars off the road and I’ll celebrate the stock price drop hurting Elon’s wallet. But this event doesn’t feel significant.
I’m reminded of early in Trump’s Presidency when folks would lose their minds over perfectly normal shit he was doing such as firing political appointees from the previous admin. Like, maybe it’s just a slow day for news. Instead of trying to make something about a nothing story, wait a day or two and they’ll do something mind-blowingly idiotic because that is their nature. It won’t be a long wait and then we can all laugh/rage at these assholes again.
Instead we get essentially a clickbait headline that is “technically true” but completely misleading.
No argument here, I completely agree that this isn’t newsworthy. People just see “recall” but don’t realize those can be software patches.