One of my favorite recalls was for my 06 mustang. I had issues filling up the gas tank. When filling up, it would kick off when the tank was only half full. There was a design issue with the gas tank.

Fords recommendation was: Use a different pump

I don't need to pull stats. You pull them. What I said is I have first hand experience that this happens across the board. I mentioned no stats.

Ah so other cars have no firmware or software in them, got it.

No, you're missing the point.

The point is, this stuff happens to ALL companies. This is not exclusive to Tesla. Yet we only see posts about Tesla on this site.

I literally have a power steering column recall with my car that is not a Tesla. But since it's not a Tesla, you don't hear about it.

My wife's car has an issue with the transmission where you weren't really in park even when you put it in park.

I also have a bug with the dash requiring a software update. But I gotta bring it in to the dealer to get it updated.

Failed twice in a row, impressive.

"The word "recall" is just a formality here."

"Since when is having to acknowledge that your steering might fail a formality?"

They didn't say that acknowledging an issue is a formality. They said the use of the word "recall" is the formality. In the classic sense, you would need to bring in your car somewhere to have a repair done, or even to update the firmware. This is not the case here. It was an over the air update.

Lucky you. I can tell you it happens to the other manufacturers as well, from first hand experience. Except when it does, you gotta take the car to a dealership instead of just doing it at home.

That's not what they said, try reading that again.

"Recalls for serious and dangerous problems don't happen to other makes at the same frequency as Tesla's"

Well that's just wrong. I've had cars from many manufacturers and I've always gotten similar recall noticed on all of them.