On February 3, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that Tesla, the world's largest electric car manufacturer, is conducting safety recalls on more than 817,000 vehicles.
But not long after this incident, Tesla fans bought the Times Square advertisement and spoke up for Tesla, saying that this was a wireless upgrade, not a recall. So let's discuss, what is an upgrade and what is a recall? What is the difference between the two?
First of all, let's take a look at why the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requires Tesla to carry out a recall, the reason is because Tesla's model, due to software problems, there is no seat belt not to be reminded. Since this is a pure software problem, Tesla can solve it through OTA upgrades at a later stage. And no one has had a traffic accident because of this problem. So there are many people who think that this problem is trivial, this is a problem that can be solved by upgrading, not the scope of the recall, but a simple system upgrade.
So is there any essential difference between an upgrade and a recall? In fact, there is an essential difference.
[1] Upgrades are not mandatory, but recalls are mandatory.
The biggest difference between an upgrade and a recall is that the upgrade is not mandatory, but the recall is mandatory. This reason is like our mobile phones, many people buy a new mobile phone, may disdain the continuous upgrade of the system, they think that the continuous upgrade of the system will become more and more stuck. So even with the push of the software upgrade they will not upgrade, this is the personal preference of consumers, there is no problem, but the recall is not the same. Recall has a mandatory meaning, and the problem must be solved before it is called recall. So we look at Tesla's problem this time, I think he is not a problem of upgrading, he must recall, because if it is not recalled, then there is a high probability that there will be a safety hazard in the future.
[2] Upgrade is to improve the user experience, but the recall is used to fix the problem.
The second very important difference is that the upgrade is to improve the user experience, but the recall is to fix specific problems. We also take the mobile phone as an example, after continuous system upgrades, then your mobile phone may have more features. Some new features may improve your user experience. But the recall is different, the recall is to solve the specific problem. So the reason for Tesla's recall is because the seat belt is not fastened to remind the sound that it does not sound. This is a very obvious problem with security risks.
[3] Upgrades do not require supervision, but recalls require supervision from relevant departments
The system upgrade does not require any supervision agency to supervise, it is a completely corporate act. But the recall needs to be supervised by the authorities. So the recall has a complete process. It needs to be supervised by third-party authorities, just as the Tesla recall is supervised by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. So he's not saying that after the enterprise system upgrade, it will not be a thing. Therefore, the most obvious difference between recall and upgrade is that the upgrade does not require supervision, and the enterprise can do what it wants. However, the recall requires the supervision of the relevant departments to see if the problem has been completely solved.
So through the three very obvious differences I said above, we can find that although the problem with Tesla this time is a small problem, it still belongs to the scope of the recall, and does not belong to the system upgrade.