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.

  • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    11 months ago

    leadership considers such wise long term investments to be costs on their quarterly forecasts, the benefits of which they wouldnt be personally rewarded for anyway. its a fundamental flaw of modern capitalism.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      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
        4·
        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.