• mommykink@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What I’ve read is that it’s a bad sensor that doesn’t alert the driver when their hood isn’t latched before they start driving, not a bad latch that fails during a drive

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      3 months ago

      Makes sense. You unlatch the hood through the app or the touch screen.

      I did have one instance where I didn’t lock my phone screen and somehow “butt dialed” to unlatch the hood. I didn’t realize it happened until the car displayed a popup and refused to drive until it was latched

      A bad sensor would clearly interfere with this error handling

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        3 months ago

        Uh… fair, but:

        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.

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          3 months ago

          Ah, fair. I have mixed up two different articles, one from technology@lemmy.world. 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’

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      3 months ago

      While I can’t stand them, preemptively ‘preparing’ for them isn’t doing anyone any favors. If they come, let them be downvoted, removed, or hopefully banned. You are just begging for shit to be started by saying this, which I’m assuming was bait anyways