Filed under recall.

The Inspection That Already Ran

When a mold repair introduces a contamination mode the training corpus has never seen, a 99% accurate vision system passes the batch — and the defect ships. The Hyundai Kona Do Not Drive recall of February 2026 is not an indictment of AI quality inspection; it is a case study in the gap between commissioning and maturity. Six weeks on a driveway is the cost no manufacturer reimbursement plan covers.