Also isn’t a recall is a good thing for consumers? It means Tesla is fixing an error, not ignoring it.
In the US, consumer liability laws make these fixes mandatory but it is always better when a manufacturer voluntarily recalls a product than when it is ordered to by some oversight agency.
If they waited until NHTSA performed their investigation and made a recall request (which is how the heavy majority of the recalls in the US are performed), that would be reactive.
Actually not.
"creating or controlling a situation rather than just responding to it after it has happened."
Yes, because recalls are a good thing, because the manuf. has acknowledged the issue and is trying to address it.
No, because what glue sniffing idiot thought glue would be the best option, instead of just riveting the damn thing down, and never worrying about the pretty little piece of garbage coming loose and sticking the accel pedal down.
Deciding to sub in fasteners in the production line would have involved addition of at least one new position in the line to install the fasteners.
Glue is insufficient. It was insufficient with it was decided. It was insufficient when it was implemented and while I'm not a car designer, I can state that glue, in this case? Predictably insufficient.