Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic ‘flaws’ and ‘failures’ for years.

  • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    its a fundamental flaw of modern capitalism

    I disagree. It’s a fundamental flaw of the people running Tesla. They’re not going to get away with this - there will be lawsuits and serious consequences which could easily have been avoided while still making both short term and long term profits.

    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I wouldn’t hold my breath that they are going to be held accountable. That doesn’t usually happen for large companies.