[jillesvangurp]

It's a bit of a semantic play here. But there's a difference between it might happen and things actually happening. Tesla has had several safety related "recalls" in the last few years. All of which were fixed without much hassle via an over the air software update. And of course their record on safety kind of speaks for itself. Not a whole lot of bad stuff happening with Teslas relative to other vehicles that are facing issues related to structural integrity of the car. Like wheels might fall off with some Toyota's. Or spontaneous combustion of batteries because of dodgy suppliers (happened to BMW and a few others). Which is of course much harder to fix with a software update and would require an actual recall to get expensive repairs done.

The headline of that many cars being "recalled" is of course nice clickbait. Much better than "cars to receive minor software update that fixes an issue that isn't actually that much of an issue in the real world so far". One is outrage-ism fueled advertising and the other is a bit of a non event. It's like your laptop receiving some security related update. Happens a lot. Is that a recall of your laptop or just an annoying unscheduled coffee break?