Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation – and won just about every time.

BEIJING (AP) — Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 days ago

    This is why:

    1. I will never own a Tesla in particular
    2. I will never own a brake-by-wire car or one without a purely mechanical handbrake

    and infinitely more importantly,

    1. This is why it’s essential to have things like strong freedom of speech, good consumer-protection laws, and a culture that does not accept government corruption. The sentiments expressed in items #1 and #2 above do absolutely fuck-all to solve the problem on a societal level.