Tesla has issued a second over-the-air (OTA) recall to change their indicator icons in Canada, reverting a change they made earlier this year due to differences between Canadian and US regulations. Back in February the […]
Agreed. Recall needs to mean “brings car to physical location for service”.
Anything else can be a software update.
I agree with this change though unless the icons are localized for language having warning indicators in a different language than you speak might be confusing.
That said there are only a handful of symbols which are probably universally known. The check engine light is not one of them.
They really need to stop using the word recall for this type of thing.
Agreed. Recall needs to mean “brings car to physical location for service”.
Anything else can be a software update.
I agree with this change though unless the icons are localized for language having warning indicators in a different language than you speak might be confusing.
That said there are only a handful of symbols which are probably universally known. The check engine light is not one of them.
Yeah, software updates should probably be in a different category.
“Tesla recalls its recall” is rather amusing though.