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I am not one to pass judgement when I don't know all the information, but I will say that as product development engineer Tesla just reeks of a company that puts stuff out there when it's not quite ready for prime time. That's not to say they don't make good vehicles or don't have great technology. But Tesla does push "cool" and new features in a way a neat consumer products may be marketed. I'm amazed they are getting away with doing that with vehicles.
I think this is one of the cases in which the NHTSA's safety standard's are simply too antiquated to properly assess all the risks of EV's and since they have the agility of Stonehenge, they may never catch up to the the industry. It will be left to the car companies' internal safety risk assessments to put an "appropriately safe" product out there.
All that said, if it weren't because Tesla has so many fanbois, Musk may have killed the company a while ago with all the careless tweeting. The level of hubris amazes me.
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