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It’s not the actual latch that’s faulty, but the warning the driver should get, if they haven’t closed the frunk properly.
It's the owner that's faulty for buying one in the first place.
I mean, this can happen with any car that has a hinged hood (so nearly all cars)
does tesla just not bother to hire a qa team or something?
Microswitch lever fatigue is what this sounds like and it's really not the kind of thing that a QA team could ever detect without years of testing. This is just how it'll go as we add more bells and whistles to all our cars. More obscure new issues will be identified years down the line and added to institutional knowledge for future use.
To be fair, it's not an issue with just Tesla, but basically all modern software. The end user has become the beta tester.
This isn't software, it's a car. It's highly regulated. NHTSA doesn't care if it's a software issue.
LOL wat? You don't think Teslas are running any kind of software?
Recalls aren’t uncommon. You just don’t hear about most because it’s not trendy.
One of my vehicles is at risk of catching fire. The other is at risk of its axle falling off.
These are major brands, within the past 5 years.
It's pretty tough to say without looking at comparable recall rates for other companies. My Toyota Corolla had two recalls that I know about while I owned it, and Toyota is known for their reliability. Tesla is just always in the news because they're always in the news.
Toyota is also known for their reluctance to issue recalls even though they REALLY need to do a recall because they don't want to tarnish their reputation for reliability. Often waiting until the government forces them to issue the recall. I'd much rather the Ford approach and just issue recalls like candy on Halloween. Sure having 700 recalls sucks, but driving a defective car sucks even more.
Cheaper to just let a bunch of people get injured/killed
Not always. But yes, there is a price.
Is a frunk a front trunk, or is that a typo?
Front trunk, yeah
The latch is fault, and so is the sensor. Sensor doesn't go off when the latch starts to fail from deformation.
According to the description, it's just the sensor, not the latch. The microswitch has a lever like many do and that lever can become bent if damaged which would prevent it from warning the user if they failed to latch the hood. Most older cars just had a secondary latch so if you failed to latch it completely, at least the secondary one would catch it...
Not sure what description you're talking about, but I'm basing this on the article itself.
Even in your reply..you say the problem is the actual latch being physically damaged.