What is their reputation on reliability on here? How many decades have they been making cars compared and how mature is their manufacturing process?
You just don't hear about other carmakers' recalls on here, so everyone makes those assumptions you just did, that Tesla is disproportionately bad with quality issues..
You can steer as long as you've got three wheels. Not as well as with four of course. With a modern brake system, you should have some braking power too. I know someone who lost a wheel on an 1965 truck with a single chamber brake cylinder, so there was no pressure in the system as brake parts fell off with the wheel.
Could you please stop posting flamewar comments and stop using HN primarily for ideological battle? We have to ban accounts that do those things. They're not what this site is for, and destroy what it is for.
Why would number of recalls be proportional to number of vehicles shipped? I think number of recalls would be more proportional to number of car models available. And number of vehicles recalled would be proportional to number of vehicles shipped. In this case 3,878 vehicles were recalled.
Toyota had a recall just a couple of days ago. That story wasn't even submitted to HN, while the Cybertruck already made the front page a couple of times and will probably continue to do so. That's a perfect example of disproportionate coverage leading to several commenters on this story automatically assuming Tesla is worse than other manufacturers. And somehow you didn't ask them for data saying you were curious but immediately jumped on my comment. That's typically not the behavior of someone that's starting with no data and neutral.
You did not post any data. You made some assertions about Toyota and Tesla. I asked which data you were using. You linked to an infographic and an article about a recent recall. You seem to have a bias. You should think about that.
How many of Ford Motor's 58 recalls in 2023 made HN's front page?
Meanwhile Tesla updates the car UIs icon sizes via a software update, and there are headlines all over the media including HN stating that Tesla recalled millions of cars, omitting that it was a software update.
That makes people like the GP think Teslas have disproportionately worse issues, which appears to be the objective.
How is recalls per company a valid metric? Should it be at least normalised by number of models (e.g. if we assume design flaws)?
By that metric Fords 58 are normalised by 40 odd models (only counting current) while Teslas 20 are normalised by 6 models (counting any car/truck build).
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/24/cars/toyota-bz4x-tundra-recal...
What is their reputation on reliability on here? How many decades have they been making cars compared and how mature is their manufacturing process?
You just don't hear about other carmakers' recalls on here, so everyone makes those assumptions you just did, that Tesla is disproportionately bad with quality issues..