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·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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·
        1 year ago

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