this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2024
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This is just going to be fixed with an OTA update, for anyone that doesn't want to read the article.
Do they need to be driven anywhere for the fix or is it like an automatic update?
Someone mentioned in another thread that this is still technically a recall, but I didn't understand why.
I felt like calling it a recall might make people distrust future news about issues (or a bigger more traditional "send the car back for physical part swap" recall). Maybe a different term is needed?
It's just an automatic software update, like what happens regularly when Musk decides he wants to add new fart noises or whatever, so users just have to accept the update when it pops on their screen.
It's still officially called a recall because it's something the government asked them to fix, but yeah, it's super misleading to call it that.
Ah gotcha ok, thank you!