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Although the problem is with the hood latch, as with many Tesla safety recalls, the problem can be fixed with an over-the-air software patch
This is what happens when you run all the car's mechanical and electronic switches though some cheap, sh*tty tablet interface. Instead of directly wiring them to lights on the dashboard.
By April, it had identified the problem as deformation of the hood latch switch, “which could prevent the customer from being notified about an open hood state.”
I think there was a scandal before with the logic of that thing being not good at all and it becoming dangerous if you've put sufficiently heavy pressure to prevent it from closing a few times.
Is this a real recall or an OTA update?
I hate Tesla, but a lot of news outlets are like
TESLA RECALLS BAJILLION CARS And what they really mean is they released an OTA update to fix some extremely rare race condition.
The issue is still bad, but I feel like the news outlets are sensationalizing to the point of dishonesty sometimes.
To be clear I'm not sure I understand the actual underlying issue here, so idk how deserved the headline is, but whenever I see them, I'm immediately skeptical
The issue is a faulty latch that deforms and allows the hood to open, and their fix is to have a warning light when the hood opens.
They're not fixing the problem.
Reading it, the latch doesn't deform, the latch sensor deforms. It doesn't allow the closed hood to open, it fails to alert the driver that the hood wasn't closed.
But if the sensor is broken, idk how an OTA can detect that the hood is open.
The problem is with a shitty latch: the hood appears closed, but it's not.
The OTA Update doesn't fix the shitty mechanical latch - it still doesn't latch consistently. What it fixes is another poor design choice: evidently, the car has sensors that can tell if the hood was closed correctly or not, but this was never turned on/programmed? The OTA Updates this so now the car can warn you when the shitty latch fails.
Or who knows, maybe they initially turned off that sensor because it was going off all the time because of the latch...
Although the problem is with the hood latch, as with many Tesla safety recalls, the problem can be fixed with an over-the-air software patch.
The problem is a sensor that detects if the latch is closed. How did an OTA fix this?
It hard to tell how big of a concern this was
They probably only used the sensor while unlatched, now they use it while supposedly latched too.
Did you not even read the summary?
I did and it doesn't really give complete answers.
The latch is fine, but the sensor to detect when the driver didn't close the hood can break. I dont understand how an OTA can fix that, and idk how common the problem was, so I can't tell how sensational the headline is
"all those words I have to scroll past before commenting? No, why would I read any of that?".
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I wanted a Tesla as a teenager, I recently realized that they are getting so low I could in theory finacance a used one, but they are so much shit lmao, worse than a Kia
I feel like I would get a used tesla entirely to strip it down into a Mad Max mobile.
That would be neat, they can go pretty fast too like that: you could likely find a wrecked salvage one for the project at a junk yard. As long as the battery, motor, and it’s drivable.
Id also have to learn how to circumnavigate the fucking tablet it uses but worst case scenario Id hardwire switches.
The good part about Teslas is how advanced their FSD is, plus their superchargers. The bad part is that they have terrible quality control, you're driving a touchscreen on wheels, and you're finding Elon
https://www.kbb.com/kia/recall/
Every manufacturer has recalls, like that fun Telluride one that lights the car on fire if you adjust the driver seat too much!
Kia’s are not great, but Tesla seems worse
I'm a school bus driver and middle school boys go apeshit when they see a Tesla - which is unfortunately often because they're pretty common these days. They explode when they see a fucking cybertruck, which is fortunately still not often.
I didn't like it when the first one came out and I was a teenager. But, to be honest, I was very pessimistic about the transition from late 00s to early 10s in everything around me. EDIT: Switched to Linux then too.
