Tangential, I am on a cross country trip with FSD 10.8.1 which has been recalled. Yesterday the entire visual interface and sound interface froze on me while stopped at a light while driving, somehow got into R-everse and I almost backed into a car behind me when the light changed. A soft restart fixed it, and I have cabin video of the entire incident. Anyone know how to signal boost this without being overly annoying? My software is two full versions behind and won’t update yet. Super unsafe, not that updating will guarantee to make it safer. Seemed like a memory leak or something to me, as the car computer got slower and slower over a couple of hours.

Whole thing is on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1291302858 around 6h:20m

Full self defrosting is right around the corner, if regulators don’t block us it will be GA within a quarter.

"Recall" carries the strong connotation that the vehicle must be driven to an authorized dealership/garage for fixing.

There should be a better word for software issues fixed over the air.

In my first car, I defrosted the windshield by twisting a knob with a physical linkage to the baffle in the airbox; it blew on the windshield and I could see where I was going. I have a newer car now, with a button going into some electronic HVAC controller. Some cars now have touchscreens with user-facing software to control it all. It's not an improvement. I wish I could still get a decent car with mechanical climate controls.

Somebody set us up the frost

Main defroster not turn on

Elon: all your Teslas are belong to us

You have no chance to drive

FSD

for great Future

reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

We need a better word for "recall" when it's a software update to fix it.

In the future there might be something requiring an actual physical fix, but people might see the headline and assume it's just another software update - because most Tesla "recalls" have been software updates.

My car has a physical button that I press to defrost the window. I'm guessing this triggers some software to turn on the defrosting fans. Is this the same thing in the Tesla except it's a digital button? I can't read the article but I've rarely seen defrosting being described as software. Wondering if this is something different.

It's crazy that regulators still make folks bring cars back to dealers for recalls. Why not just let tesla do OTA updates instead of these massive recalls. Seems stupid.