“All I can tell you,” the Tesla manager said, “is we’re not a 100-year-old company like GM and Ford. We haven’t worked all the bugs out yet.”

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    11 months ago

    This was so already so well known like 5+ years ago that people on Twitter gave it a name - #WhompyWheel

    There are a bunch of pictures of Teslas where the wheel just fell off (and that caused an accident) or was torn off by a mild accident or hitting a normal pothole. Crazy stuff. But hey, at least Tesla cars are heavy and have good acceleration, so what could go wrong!?