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I have written on this blog too many times about Tesla’s poor engineering practices.

Given its poor safety record and lower quality than other brands, this is indeed an example of how not to run a company.

The explanation is easy to come by... First of all, the CEO is a serial liar. A complete lack of integrity is always detrimental to quality control.

Second, consider that the CEO has repeatedly flaunted and ignored science. He recently sent an email to all employees stating that even if it affects safety concerns, he should enjoy distraction.

A colleague just sent me a note asking if we can listen to music with one earplug so that the other ear can hear safety-related issues. This sounds great to me.

What problem do you think the CEO is trying to solve here?

OSHA broke this line of thinking in 2020...

OSHA stated that the reasons why employees are not allowed to listen to music at work should be very clear. "Listening to music may cover up the environmental sounds that need to be heard, thereby creating a safety hazard..." [...] Even if there are no specific regulations on the use of headphones, if OSHA finds that the employer has violated the regulations, the employer may still face law enforcement actions. The general liability clause requires all employers to maintain a safe workplace. "The key point of this letter is that employers must solve the problem of employees using headphones to listen to music in the workplace, even if there is no specific OSHA standard that prohibits this..."

You should probably read the CEO's email because he sneered at OSHA ("Tesla has violated OSHA three times as many times as the 10 largest factories in the United States combined").

This is a subtle encouragement that can show off safety to increase vehicle production speed while ignoring more safety-related issues. The only issue that the CEO seems to really care about is the slowdown in production and nothing else.

This means that only the original quantity of shipments is measured, without considering the harm to workers or consumers, because this idea will increase his profits in the short term, while completely ignoring the long-term fundamentals, such as recalls, deaths and ordinary people. All issues of concern.

Tip: Tesla’s death toll is astronomical higher than other vehicles.

Their latest model actually kills an average of 30 people per year, which is unheard of! (Pinto infamously destroyed the Ford brand and only 27 people died).

Well, when Consumer Reports officially announces that Tesla is at the bottom, please allow me to give way now.

Tesla's Model S, Model Y, and Model X have below average reliability scores... Over the years, Tesla's quality issues have been well documented because the company has been accelerating production and delivering more vehicles— —Sometimes it may be too fast.

Consumer Reports also criticized those who tried to make excuses.

"There is no reason that a fully electric car cannot be as reliable as a traditional internal combustion engine car, or even more reliable," Fisher said. "This is how they implemented the technology." The electric drivetrain is not a problem. Instead, Fisher blamed unnecessary high-tech bells and whistles. Fisher said: "For the launch of electric vehicles, people tend to add so many unnecessary technologies."

This is a subtle criticism of the fact that Tesla is almost entirely focused on unnecessary technology, rather than real engineering issues.

"Consumer Reports" even emphasized that the most difficult project is to produce the most reliable and safest cars, which further pushed Tesla's failure aside.

"What stands out is that the most reliable ones are actually compact hybrids and plug-in hybrids," Fisher said. "It may be counterintuitive. In terms of power systems, they may be the most complicated."

In short, Tesla is a dangerous scam.

However, this car is not only a danger to workers and customers; it is dangerous to anyone in or around Tesla.

It’s easy to find many examples. Even the latest Tesla software failed to avoid oncoming vehicles (failed to navigate, failed to stay in the lane), which foreshadows what will happen in Florida on November 7, 2021 The tragic news of the car accident:

Police said that at around 7:30 in the morning, 58-year-old Philip Henkin was driving his Tesla car at high speed on the southbound lane of Lizard Tail Road near Park Central Avenue. When Henkin turned along the curve, the police said that he had hit a cyclist head-on before hitting a tree.

This happened shortly after the crash in Florida on September 14, 2021:

Coral Gables police officer Kelly Denham (Kelly Denham) said that the Tesla driver rammed the car into a tree. A mobile phone video taken after the accident showed that the vehicle was engulfed in flames. Denham confirmed that two people were killed in the car.

This was shortly after the car accident in Florida on September 4, 2021:

…Driving the 2021 Tesla Model S Plaid on the Manning Road high-speed northward, but the driver failed to stop at the stop sign… When crossing the intersection, he hit the embankment, started the car in the air, and then Crashed into the Caird Way of the house and crossed the outer back wall of the house. […] The FHP said that the car killed one of the three residents in the family, a 69-year-old woman.

A cyclist was killed across the road. Kill a passenger. Killed a woman sitting in her house...

This is a simple chart I made a few months ago to illustrate how such tragic stories are accumulating more and more under the Tesla brand.

What needs to be clear is that other brands have the safest record in history, and Tesla's record is getting worse.

A GM electric car sold 150K units, and the average death rate was less than 1 person per year for more than a decade (again, I must reiterate that Tesla’s latest model caused an average of 30 deaths per year in the first three years).

Volvo continues to talk about the goal of zero deaths, despite selling more cars than Tesla and shifting their fleet to electric vehicles. Compared with the sunshine of other automakers, Tesla is like night.

So this is what the Tesla chart looks like today (each bar will be updated with more and more news reports, even reports from the past few years).

*** This is a security blog network joint blog from flypenguin written by Davi Ottenheimer. Read the original text: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=36665