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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.

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While we're swapping anecdotes, I own several Teslas, starting over six years ago, and have never experienced this. I've also never met a person in my life who has experienced this.

In contrast, I've had recalls from other manufacturers take so long (several years), that my vehicle died before I was able to get them applied. I've had a recall where the OEM is refusing to make it available to me, because it only occurs in "cold" weather.

Tesla's recalls are better than the rest of the entire industry.

I often hear Tesla supporters say that Tesla builds a car around a computer while other manufacturers are just stuffing a computer in their car.

From experience, to me the problem with Tesla cars is that the computer isn't that great in the first place, and build quality and ergonomics of the actual car are clearly an afterthought.

I'd much rather have a mid-tier computer in a Toyota-level car than the most expensive Acer laptop in a Kia.

> From experience, to me the problem with Tesla cars is that the computer isn't that great in the first place, and build quality and ergonomics of the actual car are clearly an afterthought.

Ah, so it's a TV company!

(SmartTV software tends to be _terrible_, both from a doing-what-it's-supposed-to point of view, and a security point of view. But the TVs are essentially built around it, nonetheless.)

Sounds like their software team applies the "move fast and break things" motto even to cars.

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