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While this is technically a recall because it relates to vehicles, it is more akin to Apple releasing a fix to iOS because the selfie-cam sometimes doesn't work.
Your argument is doing more to convince me that not every recall is newsworthy than this is actually a big deal.
And I fucking hate Musk and Tesla. Show me a 200000 vehicle recall that actually pulls cars off the road and I'll celebrate the stock price drop hurting Elon's wallet. But this event doesn't feel significant.
I'm reminded of early in Trump's Presidency when folks would lose their minds over perfectly normal shit he was doing such as firing political appointees from the previous admin. Like, maybe it's just a slow day for news. Instead of trying to make something about a nothing story, wait a day or two and they'll do something mind-blowingly idiotic because that is their nature. It won't be a long wait and then we can all laugh/rage at these assholes again.
Instead we get essentially a clickbait headline that is "technically true" but completely misleading.
People have been backing up for over 100 years without a backup camera. Calling it a safety issues is stretching that definition.
None of that changes the fact that this isn't killing anyone, and if Tesla is to be believed (it's not, but I haven't seen a counter-narrative to suggest otherwise) it hasn't caused any property damage, and it isn't going to cost Telsa more than a few hours of overtime to fix it. This is not interesting or relevant to anyone whether they love or hate Musk or own a Tesla.
To have a headline that says there is a 200000 vehicle recall - no matter how technically accurate it is - is a misleading headline designed to get people to click only to find out it's a non-issue that no one gives a fuck about.
I don't misunderstand how recalls work. I'm simply saying this one is completely unimportant. Tesla stated no accidents or injuries were caused by this defect, but that's really irrelevant just like the rest of this "news".
For fucks sake it's not that hard. This isn't news. Click a button and problem goes away. It's misleading because it gets you to click on a completely unimportant story. I get gotcha winning is an internet thing, but the context of the conversation is important and ignoring it for a quick gotcha isn't a win.
I'm not. I foolishly stuck my nose in to agree with someone who I thought had the right of things.
No argument here, I completely agree that this isn’t newsworthy. People just see “recall” but don’t realize those can be software patches.