Tesla Recalls over 475,000 U.S. Cars on Camera, Trunk Issues

Before I owned a car, I thought a “recall” meant “we’re taking it back! This whole thing is a massive disaster. We should never have made this in the first place”. Turns out it means you schedule a fix at your local service center at the manufacturer’s cost.

Now I don’t even know why this is news. My Subaru has had like four or five recalls and now I just have them fixed during routine maintenance.

Shit stories like this is why you need a downvote button on the home page

This seems eminently reasonable considering how much time law enforcement vehicles, especially ones dedicated to certain types of enforcement, spend just idling or parked while the officer stands around. Heck, about half the cruisers you see on traffic detail are just running the lights with nobody in the car.

Municipal fleets have a lot of use cases that are perfect for EVs, that adoption has been so slow tells you something about how the numbers pencil out.