had identified the condition impacting vehicles in China as a latch switch deformation.
Tesla has continued to look at the issue and found that the rates of occurrence were higher in China than in Europe and North America, but the reason for that disparity is unknown.
You cannot fix a physical deformation via software. You can patch your software around it, maybe. But that doesn’t mean the underlying issue is fixed. Would you want your expensive EV to have a deformed latch? I know they released a “patch”, but that doesn’t magically fix a deformed latch which may or may not cause more issues down the line.
Ah, fair. I have mixed up two different articles, one from [email protected].
That article clarified a little more that this ‘recall’ is still just a software update with a scary name. It’s just updating the hood sensor to alert if it detects the hood is not fitted. Is it negligible that they aren’t doing a physical fix? Oh hell yeah, but they’re still just pushing it to software.
Can’t patch that via software
But… it is a software patch?
Uh… fair, but:
You cannot fix a physical deformation via software. You can patch your software around it, maybe. But that doesn’t mean the underlying issue is fixed. Would you want your expensive EV to have a deformed latch? I know they released a “patch”, but that doesn’t magically fix a deformed latch which may or may not cause more issues down the line.
Ah, fair. I have mixed up two different articles, one from [email protected]. That article clarified a little more that this ‘recall’ is still just a software update with a scary name. It’s just updating the hood sensor to alert if it detects the hood is not fitted. Is it negligible that they aren’t doing a physical fix? Oh hell yeah, but they’re still just pushing it to software.
They really should not be calling these ‘recalls’
Ah, gotcha. Yeah, seems like they need to be called different things.