My iphone can't kill someone else moving 70 mph down the highway during the normal course of its operation.

As a Tesla owner who was the recipient of one of these famous "OTA" updates I can assure you that many of these recalls also involve needing to take your Tesla into the service center because the horrible software managed to actually damage the hardware.

For example as this article clearly says: "some 2023 Model 3 sedans and Model Y crossovers running older software could face an overvoltage breakdown, potentially overstressing motor drive components on the printed circuit board." If you look it up there are "many such cases" lol.

Personally I'm on the second computer for my Tesla, and I'm sure it won't be the last time some terrible software bug burns out the computer or circuit board.

Yes, I find the language misleading. Recall to me is synonymous with call-back. Which means I have to bring back, return it. On your PC, when you do a software update, you are not returning your operating system, you are rebooting your PC. Return vs. reboot. Quite a difference.

Tesla release software updates too. This is different.

https://www.tesla.com/support/software-updates

It would be nice if we started treating security defects like hardware defects

As others pointed out, it is a legal requirement. I kind of think tech should be regulated the same way. At least if the product has >X amount of users.

I know the dangers are not as immediately obvious as the automobile industry, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t there.

We live in a world where consumer technology interacts with medical equipment, heavy machinery, security systems, etc.

The difference is in the first paragraph of the article:

"due to a failure of the power steering assist feature that could make the vehicles harder to steer, particularly at low speeds, raising the risk of a crash."

That's how that kind of thing is handled in the automotive world shrug

And my cars have had "recalls" that consist of "insert this piece of paper between pages 219 and 220 of your owner's manual".

Still a recall.

Wouldn't be one of these threads without people complaining Tesla should be treated differently.

A part was failing due to overvoltage/overwork, leading to 3000 or so related warranty events being triggered in the field, so they have to do a fix to affected vehicles. Because it's a regulated field, though I'm sure soon enough they'll be able to just sweep it under the rug.

Every Tesla story on here sees the same "just a software update" thing, but this is a software update to fix a serious issue that hit thousands of vehicles.

Fortunately, iPhones don't weigh 2 tons or run the disk of hitting other drivers and pedestrians.

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Came for the top comment in defence of Tesla, and was not disappointed

Ok,whem do iphones kill their users or others. Do you live in. Cartoon world?

The use of regulatory jargon isn't that bad. I mean, the word "recall" has a specific meaning to the DOT and a specific set of requirements and this action is being taken under that regime. It's a "recall". That the etymology is confusing is unfortunate, but language just does that sometimes.

So it's nice that we have these people called "journalists" who help us navigate this kind of jargon maze by explaining for the lay reader what the actual meaning of the complicated regulatory communication is.

Except that this particular journalist decided to bury that fact ("The company has released an over-the-air software update to fix the issue, it said.") in the seventh paragraph, just a dozen words from the end of the article. That's just straight up malpractice. Reuters is actively trying to harm their readers understanding of the issue.

What are you getting at? Didn’t you answer your own question?

“Apple recalls 2 billion iPhones for security fix!”