Tesla knew some of its parts had high failure rates but reportedly blamed drivers anyway
An abused wife took on Tesla over tracking tech. She lost.
Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective | 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’
