> Now maybe-possibly ineffectual recall repairs will swarm facilities

One of these involves the frunk potentially opening itself on the highway. That's a pretty serious issue, and probably significantly more dangerous than most of the repairs that need to be made.

> Another reason why car over-regulation hurts the driver most of all!

This isn't car over-regulation. Tesla does not have the capacity to repair all of their vehicles in a timely manner, and will not make the repair manual available for reasonable prices so that 3rd party shops could do the repairs.

You know who can fix my Dodge if the dealer is backed up with warranty stuff? Every other mechanic shop on the planet.

Tesla shipped a faulty product, Tesla doesn't have the repair facilities to rectify that, and now Tesla owners are suffering because of it.

It is in no way the government's fault for not wanting people driving around 2 ton hunks of metal at 70 mph when a piece of it might randomly obstruct their vision at any point. That seems an eminently reasonable requirement to me.

I think we can allow adult car owners to decide on their own what is a genuine hazard and what is scaremongering.

No that’s literally what minimum safety standards are for, because we can’t expect consumers to do that effectively. And while imperfect they’ve been demonstrated over many decades to improve safety and public welfare. Also because if your front hood pops up and you swerve and crash your car, it puts other road users in danger not just your adult car owning sef.

Yeah, and any adult can also decide to drive without license, and drunk as well, because they are responsible human beings. Oh wait

In general, roads are shared between multiple adults.

When one adult is being a dangerous moron, the other adults can create systems to prevent said moron from being on the road. This is how regulation is born.

So the decision was never the moron’s to make in the first place.

Uh, you do realize that a collision requires, at a minimum, two rigid objects?

"But officer, i decided that i don't need headlights in the dark. I can sense the road".

Shall we allow also drunk adult car owners to decide on their own what is a genuine hazard and what is scaremongering ?

Just like guns and alcohol, right? You're refusing to actually think about this.

How is this over-regulation?

It creates gross inefficiency by forcing repair shops to "fix" a statistically unlikely flaw, while genuinely dangerous problems that Tesla owners are already aware of get pushed to the back of the line.

Well, they should not have created low-quality cars in the first place?

Someone’s hood or frunk opening is a genuinely dangerous problem.

And we have regulation because not all adults know how dangerous the problem is.

What does statistically likely even mean? The fact that the recall happened means it is a liability worth addressing.