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‘Fun Police’ Made Elon Musk Carry Out Latest Tesla Recall

  • Tesla restricts Boombox feature after months of back-and-forth
  • CEO tweets jibe at NHTSA after 11th recall since October

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Elon Musk apparently isn’t pleased with pressure the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration put on Tesla Inc. to conduct its 11th recall in the U.S. in just over three months.

Asked by a Twitter follower on Saturday what the rationale was for recalling a feature called Boombox, which enabled people to play sounds through an external speaker of their vehicle, Tesla’s chief executive officer repliedBloomberg Terminal: “The fun police made us do it (sigh).”