It amazes me of the many statistical crashes on the roads and highways that are investigated by NHTSA, they only want Tesla to do recalls.
I don't believe any other automaker claims that its ADAS features work everywhere, while simultaneously disclaiming that they actually do not in its own manuals.
Sooner or later, that marketing vs. reality bluff was going to get called.
I guess that moment has arrived.
As surprising as sunrise!
Oh no, they ticked off Musk mom. Now it's the FCC.
Great.
Now we know from whom Elon gets his paranoid streak.
There are multiple reasons for this:
1) Tesla is the only automaker that instantly knows when a crash happens on ADAS for practically any incident.
That's false.
Virtually every OEM in the US has some form of telematics and connected car integration. Some are way more sophisticated than Tesla's, some less.
This capability had started getting deployed way back in early 2000's.
2) Tesla is the only (relatively large) automaker that does regular non-infotainment OTAs, so the ease of implementing a recall like this is very high. Thus NHTSA is more likely to call for one because it's not as hard for Tesla to do one.
I don't recall where it says NHTSA considers easy of remediation as a variable in deciding to initiate a safety recall (pun intended!).
If you have evidence of that, please do share.
Otherwise, lets not make stuff up.
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