Reportedly, Tesla is having a big issue with their accelerator pedal right now.<p>The thin metal cover of that pedal is not always thoroughly secured and slides off easily, wedging itself into the carpet behind the pedal. This causes the accelerator to be stuck (at high velocity!).<p><a href="https://insideevs.com/news/716031/tesla-cybertruck-stuck-accelerator-pedal/" rel="nofollow">https://insideevs.com/news/716031/tesla-cybertruck-stuck-acc...</a><p>As a Tesla customer, you are part of the QA team. That's what you get when they make the employees of that company to afraid to speak up and report serious issues.
carpets on the older cars is still a problem. They had round adhesive velcro patches that stuck to round smooth areas on the underside of the carpets. These would velcro to pucks that screwed into the floor carpet<p>there all kinds of problems - the picks would come loose, and the adhesive holding the velcro patch to the carpet would come loose in a hot car.<p>and the carpets would bunch up, usually under the accelerator pedal.<p>A lot of interior stuff was redesigned better for the newer cars, but then they killed most controls and put them on the touchscreen, ugh.<p>(No shifter stalk anymore, car guesses direction you want to go, no turn signal stalk, no headlight/wiper stalk, etc)
> Tesla has never provided any details about the alleged incident, either to her or in public, she says.<p>Well, unfortunately it looks like a classical case of "someone with some power in the company didn’t like you".
Move fast and break things... not the brightest idea with heavily regulated markets when we talk about 1st world countries human lives.<p>But I'll probably die of old age than witness that massive childish ego admit a fuckup in any possible way. Till then, voting with my wallet and avoiding teslas like plague, novelty of cool tech gadget is long gone and reality seeps in.
Unless I missed it, the article seems to leave out details.<p>According to previous articles, she seemingly accused Tesla of corruption by placing orders to suppliers based on friendship more than quality and price. The safety issue of mats sliding was just one part of the complaints.<p>The article also states that Tesla never provided any details about her secret personal project, but in previous articles it was said to be her project with "a way to replace flip-down sun visors with touch-based windshield-dimming technology". This included a paid trip to New York which Tesla supposedly claim wasn't approved.<p>I'm not saying it makes a difference but especially the second part seems strange to leave out when the whole legal battle seems to center around it.
Its honestly baffling how out of porch Tesla has fallen. I remember the times around when Model S first came out, the security of the car was one of the biggest praises it received. It excelled in crash tests, I don't know if this is still the case, but recently it seems like the car wants to kill you so it can show the developers which process needs improvement.<p>"it is all about deleting just a bit more than you feel comfortable with"
At this point, how could anyone even contemplate buying from such a scummy company? ... (not necessarily staff, although you'd have to assume that many of them have bought in the Elon hype and are, as such, complicit).<p>If branding means anything in this day and age, how can you associate yourself with such scummy brand? As a customer or employee?<p>I was a fanboy a decade ago. Wouldn't touch them with your bargepole now ...<p>If you have one - sell it - or get the batteries repurposed into a conversion project.
> Ultimately, Ms Balan says, she has doggedly pursued the case for so long because she wants to prove her innocence to her son.<p>This... does not make any sense? Like, I don't even know about this case, but it's kind of obvious she was let go because Tesla didn't like to hear what she had to say? Why would her own son of all people think she was guilty?
>"I want to clear my name. I wish Elon Musk had the decency to apologise," is her message to the company’s billionaire boss.<p>Know this: You will never get a narcissist to genuinely apologize.
The problem was the driver footwell carpet curling up? Seems like you'd notice it's not staying in place long before it gets stuck under a pedal, no?