Tesla Identified As Most Recalled Car Brand, Mercedes & Toyota Least::iSeeCars used NHTSA’s list of recalls from 2014-2023 to learn which of today’s cars are expected to have the most recalls over an expected 30-year lifespan.

  • Sivar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah only with a Tesla you don’t have to drive to a Tesla shop and wait for an hour or even days, you get an OTA update.

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      1 year ago

      It be better if they distinguished between both types of recall, it appears they are grouped together.

    • WantsToPetYourKitty@lemmy.world
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      If they could fix these issues via OTA then they wouldn’t be forced to do physical recalls. They’ve had windshields fly out of their frames at highway speed, steering wheels come off, catastrophic lower ball joint separation, vehicles leaving their factory with missing brake pads…software updates only take you so far

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        Yeah there’s definitely been some aggregious recall issues, but the problem is the stats include minor things that only required a quick OTA, so it skews the numbers awkwardly and means we can’t properly judge the real problems they had

        If they separated the numbers, we might see that either Tesla has very few real recalls, Tesla actually does have a lot of real recalls but also happens to have software ones, or it’s about normal

        And without separating all we can do is guess

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        1 year ago

        steering wheels come off

        Plus they have enough room for mother-in-law. Elon has no good car ideas

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        1 year ago

        Hasn’t happened as of yet.

        What if a legacy manufacturer doesn’t install a corrective part appropriately and exacerbates the issue?

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        It’s an AMAZING benefit. You get in your car in the morning and it says stuff like “we’ve improved the ability of your auto dimming headlights to detect oncoming traffic”, or “we’ve added a setting to automatically turn on your headlights when your windshield wipers are on”, or “we’ve added an ability to move the blindspot camera window”.

        A traditional car never “improves”. If your windshield wiper rain detector sucks, well too bad. Maybe when you buy another car in 10 years it’ll be better. Where in cars with OTA updates, they are constantly improved. Like I said, it’s an amazing benefit and I would imagine most other car companies are looking to adopt this model.