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Full self-driving car anyway
A/B testing strategies to drive more adoption of FSD.
Post mortem root cause - capacitive FSD buttons located on steering wheel
Must be blue tooth enabled so you can easily pass the wheel to a passenger so they can help steer while you take nap.
This is a surprisingly common recall.

Ford: https://www.endurancewarranty.com/learning-center/news/ford-...

Nissan: https://insideevs.com/news/656231/2023-nissan-ariya-recalled...

But it's only news when it happens to Tesla.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't both of these links about proactive recalls to address something that may happen, whereas the Tesla news is more about pictures of wheels having already fallen off resulting in NHTSA investigation? [1]

> Tesla quoted the vehicle owner $103.96 to repair the defect before removing the charge.

These seem like different classes of problems to me. There's also I think a large difference between "the bolts meant to keep the steering wheel to the column in the car get loose" and "the brand-new vehicles were delivered without a necessary retaining bolt to attach the steering wheel to the column"

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/8/23630358/tesla-steering-wh...

From https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/10/27/ford-fu...

>A person in Georgia told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that a steering wheel fell into their lap in a 2015 Fusion when turning into a gas station on Sept. 23.

>Two other people reported that the bolt attaching the wheel to the steering column came loose while driving and had to be retightened at a repair shop.

From https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/14/news/companies/ford-steerin...

> Ford is recalling 1.4 million vehicles because the steering wheels can become loose and even come off while driving.

> The automaker says it is aware of two accidents and one injury that may have been caused by the problem.

Should have a super emergency mode that shows tactile controls on the screen and allows for steering and stoppage of the car...
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