If you fix a safety related defect in your vehicles, you have to do it by reportinga recall. And tesla has gotten away with being able to not follow the law and do stealth recalls at will because they don't have dealerships in the middle. They've been able to do it because they are vertically integrated on the service and and the service side. If shareholders really cared about the future of tessla and their financial standing, they need to acknowledge first a couple of things. One, they should try to be protective of the direct sales model,. But when they don't support these measures, it becomes a great argument for car companies to say what happens when you go to
Tesla's confrontation with US auto safety regulators continues to ratchet up, as the automaker pulled a stealth OTA recall of an Autopilot issue that was under active NHTSA investigation. Meanwhile, the respected and outspoken critic of Autopilot safety (among many other topics) Missy Cummings was announced as special safety advisor to NHTSA, prompting an online harassment campaign by Tesla fans. The gang sorts through these developments, while leaving a little time for Alex to report on the annual Self Racing Cars trackday and for Ed to share an NTSB job listing.