‘Chief Twit’ Elon Musk’s electrical car firm, Tesla, has copped its third car recall in Australia in lower than a month from security regulators, with the most recent software program glitch involving round 15,900 Mannequin 3 and Mannequin Y automobiles imported this yr.
“Resulting from a software program error, the rear lights on one or either side might not illuminate as supposed. If this happens throughout darkish circumstances, the visitors behind may have lowered visibility and should not be capable to determine the car,” the Division of Motor Transport mentioned within the third recall for Teslas in simply over three weeks.
The excellent news for Tesla house owners is that the issue is mounted with a software program replace, somewhat than a go to to the mechanics
Whereas remembers will not be unusual – that is the twenty second in November, involving manufacturers together with Mercedes, Toyota, Volvo, BMW and Audi – it follows on from a recall of 326 Tesla Mannequin 3 automobiles on November 2 for automobiles made between 2017 and 2022 for a difficulty with the seat belts precipitated throughout servicing.
Final week greater than 1000 Tesla Mannequin S and Mannequin X bought between 2017 and 2020 had been recalled over a software program drawback with the Digital Energy Help Steering system that “might end in a lowered or lack of energy steering help and will require higher steering effort from the driving force significantly at low speeds”
The issue was as a consequence of “a lately modified software program calibration difficulty”, the Division of Transport mentioned in its recall discover.
Once more, the issue is mounted with a software program improve.
However the irony of Tesla’s software program issues wouldn’t be misplaced on Twitter engineers, with a brand new spherical of firings of software program engineers by the social media web site’s new proprietor reportedly occurring on the eve of Thanksgiving, being informed in an e mail notifying them of their dismissals that their coding was lower than scratch.
“On account of the current code evaluate train, it has been decided that your code will not be passable, and we remorse to tell you that your employment with Twitter is terminated efficient instantly,” the e-mail mentioned.
It’s believed that round 50 engineers had been terminated. Others obtained efficiency warnings.
On the night earlier than Thanksgiving, some Twitter engineers obtained an e mail saying they had been fired as a result of their “code will not be passable.” Others obtained “efficiency warning” emails asking them to “restore our confidence and exhibit your contributions to the group”
— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 24, 2022
One of many folks fired Musk’s newest purge was Ikuhiro Ihara, a extremely revered senior software program engineer who helped lead the push to increase tweets to 280 characters. https://t.co/6NYEV2Pl4b
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 24, 2022
The sting within the tail for these engineers is that they dedicated to remain underneath the “hardcore” Twitter 2.0 edict issued by Musk final week, and have been supplied 4 weeks of severance pay. Engineers who didn’t signal on and determined to depart Twitter final week – and greater than 1000 did – are being paid till the top of January.
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