First NHTSA recall for Cybertruck - Incorrect Font Size on Instrument Panel Warning Lights

[Deleted member 8371]

you upgrade the infotainment system or still the original computers that came with the car

I did upgrade to whatever they recommended. I don’t know the number offhand . What is your car over 200,000 build? My car was like 196000. Indeed people blow the 200,000.

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[cgladue]

I did upgrade to whatever they recommended. I don’t know the number offhand . What is your car over 200,000 build? My car was like 196000. Indeed people blow the 200,000.

ok that explains why you get updates, you have the current platform for infotainment, i am not upgrading it. i still have the Tegra processor.

 

[scottf200]

Some icon/image changes as well. Fairly minor.

Not the first time Tesla has played with font sizes and didn't consider official regulations and wide swath of their years (young to old eyes).

These guys have a 20K fleet so it can be a good indication when firmware OTAs versions show up on their public (no login) firmware page: https://www.teslafi.com/firmware.php

Via: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1...t-the-over-the-air-update-for-font-size-issue

 

[LonelyCTfan]

Well that's it ...I'm cancelling...How dare Elon not respect my aging eyes, I can't help I've waited 4 years for the CT haha ?

 

[kbolt]

I'm glad it only took 2.2 million vehicles for the NHTSA to catch it. We know they are looking out for us... Even if it takes a decade to catch.

 

[FarAway]

Via: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1...t-the-over-the-air-update-for-font-size-issue

Are you sure you have these labeled correctly?

The updated FONT is actually SMALLER ?!!
(except for the yellow light thingy with the bent arrow ((what the hell is that??)) and maybe the brake and park??)

Personally, I prefer the "before" and my eyes are old as dirt (almost there).

 

[CyberGus]

 

[scottf200]

Are you sure you have these labeled correctly?

The updated FONT is actually SMALLER ?!!
(except for the yellow light thingy with the bent arrow ((what the hell is that??)) and maybe the brake and park??)

Personally, I prefer the "before" and my eyes are old as dirt (almost there).

It could have been a combination of things (fonts and diff images). I don't know what flexibility all car manufacturers have in those icons and font sizes. Certainly a regulation with possible ranges of [limited] sizes.

I initially quoted greenthonly a reliable whitehat.

The 2nd one is not my picture but I did provide the source with a link.

 

[Cyberman]

We have a winner in the new tech front, the new Renault Le Car for 2024 has an updated dark pink lead-acid battery formulation. It tastes like purple.
Kool-Aid is gonna sue, f'sho.

 

[HaulingAss]

The funny thing is, the tiny fonts that were found to be non-compliant were actually added into an already established icon-based information reporting system in order to make the icon clearer to people not familiar with it.

So, it looks like Tesla had a choice of removing the text-based memory aid or eliminate the icon and replace it with all text (in a bigger font). Tesla choose the solution that would be understood by the largest number of motorists and still complied with all relevant regulations. However, the original icon with small text helper was probably the most widely understood way to provide the necessary info. As if government workers didn't have more productive ways to protect us.

This is a fine example of public servants abusing their governmental power to harass a private company (for no good reason) under the color of law. Shameful.

 

[WHIZZARD OF OZ]

And other Teslas included.

nhtsa.gov......'4 FONTS SAKE'

 

[Crissa]

If NHTSA would simply refer to it as a 'Compliance Software Update' or similar instead of 'Recall', they would be acting more professional and...

This is political.

No, like honestly, it can only be solved by legislation. NHTSA can't change legislative law, which is what allows them to issue recalls.

-Crissa

 

[Crissa]

Yup, that is why I stopped reading Jalopnik 10 years ago. Very low quality, and they have no shame.

The text of the article is pretty reasonable.

And yeah, 1/8th inch isn't big enough for old eyes.

-Crissa

 

[Crissa]

Are you sure you have these labeled correctly?

The updated FONT is actually SMALLER ?!!

It's incorrect because the second image is wider, it got shrunk in that image.

Green the Only's post that scott200 posted is correct:

Some icon/image changes as well. Fairly minor.
...

-Crissa

 

[ÆCIII]

This is political.

No, like honestly, it can only be solved by legislation. NHTSA can't change legislative law, which is what allows them to issue recalls.

-Crissa

Exactly - within NHTSA. The definition of 'Recall' has been clear for decades and has not had a perceptual change attempted until recently, or when Tesla has started eating into other legacy auto company lunches (market share).

So they wanted to change the market playing field any desperate way they could think of, to attempt accusations against Tesla of defects severe enough to warrant a 'recall'. Their agenda is to portray Tesla's software development to the public, as something equivalent to a legacy auto physical design flaw or quality defect.

Many in the public seeing the headlines will not look any further or realize that it's a minutely simple software update, and they'll go on to perceive Tesla in the same negative way as perceiving a legacy auto recall for faulty brake parts, stuck acceleration linkages, or similar. That's the type negative perceptions of Tesla they are trying to imprint upon the public.

Tesla has been doing Software Updates for many years. Why all of a sudden is a 'Font Size' so important now, because if a Font Size indeed were that critically important wouldn't it have been noticed by NHTSA way many years ago? Why were they ignoring it all this time??

If the term 'Recall' is by legislation, what changed it when, because only recently has software updates been forcibly categorized into being referred to as a 'Recall'. All these many years before, a Software Update was not referred to a 'Recall' (because it really isn't), even though some of the previous Software updates were no doubt addressing issues more critial than a 'Font Size' or icon appearance. Which legislation brought this forced reinterpretation of a Software Update?

NHTSA can force Tesla to do a Software Update without referring to it as a 'Recall'. It can be more accuratly referred to as 'Safety Software Update' or 'SSU' or something. They don't want many in the public to realize it's just a Software Update, pure and simple. The term 'Recall' is deceptive and misleading when it's merely referring to a Software Update.

If anything about this is 'political' it's what the NHTSA is doing with the term 'Recall' and not us. I wasn't alluding to politics anyway, just corporate faction and legacy auto favoritism.

A Recall is Not a Software Update. A Software Update is Not a Recall.

I agree with Elon Musk and his mother Maye Musk on this one hundred percent.

- ÆCIII

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