• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I guess their reasoning is because Tesla is anticompetitive, but if it were me I would have just labelled Tesla as not meeting safety standards as a result of their many recalls and higher rate of deadly accidents.

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      Most of those “recalls” are just software updates. One of the major ones in the news within the last year literally just made the size of the parking brake icon a few pixels bigger. Thats it. But the media makes it sound like every Tesla owner is spending every other weekend in the shop for endless recalls. To my knowledge, Tesla has had very few mechanical recalls that have required owners to have their cars brought in for service. The most memorable one I can think of was where the rear seat bolts were not torqued properly from the factory and it only affected a few thousand cars.

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        2 days ago

        My mother’s chevy trailblazer has a center console that updates regularly without triggering a nationwide recall. Personally I can’t stand cars with computers.

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          Don’t think of it as a car with a computer… rather think of it as a computer on wheels…

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            I think of it as a computer that constatly feeds data over which I have no control, so I always remove or disable center console computers in my vehicles.

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              Today every (recent) car calls home. The console is usually just the link to the real computer in your car, so disabling the console has little if no effect. On a sidenote… Do you also not use a phone?