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dak-sm t1_ixwevvd wrote

And yet… this is a basic safety function. Wonder how it got screwed up? The fact that they can fix it quickly is nice, but why was the error not caught in the regression testing of the software in the first place?

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VasagiTheSuck t1_ixwprp1 wrote

BMW has had failing tailights for 20 years, none of which have been fixed with an ota update.

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Cyan-Eyed452 t1_ixx47kl wrote

Fucking this.

Granted my BMW is 6 years old at this point but I JUST shelled out £300 to fix a failing taillight.

How these motherfuckers gonna turn their noses up at a FREE OTA update that fixes the issue?

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bored_in_NE t1_ixwgjd1 wrote

Apple sends out iOS updates all the time cause you can QA all you want and still miss something that will be figured out once it is being used by millions of people.

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schrodingerinthehat t1_ixwh7tw wrote

iPhones and Macs aren't a 1700 kg amalgamation of steel and batteries.

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myurr t1_ixwr853 wrote

And no other car manufacturer has ever had safety recalls over really fundamental things? Tesla are hardly an outlier here.

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SpecificAstronaut69 t1_ixwudyq wrote

No other car company has legions of insufferable basement-dwellers loudly doing obnoxious marketing for them.

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myurr t1_ixwvf5m wrote

Or hoards of bigoted idiots twisting anything they can to have a go at them just because their CEO is a bit of a twat.

By all means point out all that Tesla is doing wrong and I'll happily agree. Their quality control is abysmal for a company with a production line as mature as theirs should be by now, their autopilot is a joke, etc. But attacking them for a basic recall that all manufacturers do is asinine and counter productive in that it creates ill informed noise clouding the real issues that they should be held accountable for.

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SpecificAstronaut69 t1_ixww3gl wrote

You don't know what "bigoted" means, do ya, bub?

But thanks for proving my point:

"CRITICISING A CONSUMER PRODUCT I ASPIRE TO ONE DAY HOPE TO OWN IS THE SAME AS RACISM!!!"

Leave the basement, and go outside.

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myurr t1_ixy17ih wrote

Bigoted: Obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

Seems pretty accurate for the situation. Are you sure you know what it means? Being a bigot is unrelated to racism, even if the two sometimes go hand in hand.

You know nothing of my personal circumstances. I could easily buy a Tesla should I want, and test drove one when choosing my current car but opted to spend more on a different brand.

I even point out some of the many reasons to criticise Tesla in my previous post, as well as patiently explaining why this it's counter productive to criticise them in this specific instance. Yet you choose personal insults in reply whilst completely misrepresenting what I said...

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schrodingerinthehat t1_ixx4ntq wrote

They are literally an outlier...

They have issued recalls for a quarter of their sold cars...

The fanboys parrot the OTA thing like that is an acceptable error rate.

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DonQuixBalls t1_ixyin2k wrote

>They have issued recalls for a quarter of their sold cars...

Really? Fuck that's low! Ferrari recalled every car made since 2005. Rivian too. 25% is amazing.

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JaqenYcar t1_ixwqs7t wrote

Said the person who doesn’t create entire fucking vehicles lol

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