Tesla Has to Fix 20,000 Vehicles With Too-Bright Headlights It’s Known About Since 2024
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Regulators are signaling less tolerance for "inconsequential" safety issues—even at small scale—which raises the bar on how quickly OEMs need to detect, decide, and remediate defects. If your product ships with OTA capability, assume regulators will expect software-speed fixes, not hardware-era timelines.
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