  >off-road incident

Big nothingburger in other words.

Obviously the NHTSA ('Highway' is in the name) doesn't care if you boulder-crawl and break your car. That's easy, in any car!

Boulder crawling typically involves heavily modified vehicles for a reason.

▲ CharlieDigital 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Read the recall link:

    > If the cracks persist and worsen, it may result in the wheel detaching entirely.
    > 
    > ...engineers determined that continued use under strain could eventually lead to separation of the wheel stud from the hub.

Watch the YT video.

Telsa made bad engineering choices on this vehicle. There's no point defending it.

Is it because your world view fractures with a fallible Musk?

▲ schiffern 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I know what happened, no thanks to Wired. ;)

Original point being, Wired is (best case) bad at proofreading and worst case trying to lie by omission and imply that this actually happened, while "merrily driving along" no less. In reality no such failure occurred.

TL;DR however much you distrust the media, it's not enough...

	▲	CharlieDigital 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		`> however much you distrust the media, it's not enough...` The YT video is not from a Tesla hater, but shows real, structural failures with the CT and the engineering (using cast aluminum instead of steel). I don't trust any singular source, but looking at evidence in aggregate across many sources, there are clear problems with the CT from material selection to parts engineering to overall capability vs what was sold.

▲ gyanchawdhary 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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