There has been a leak of internal Tesla documents over the past few years with a total capacity of 100 GB. It refers to accidents associated with phantom braking and acceleration. They also contain tens of thousands of complaints about autopilot functions.
It is reported by the German edition of Handelsblatt, citing insiders.
Journalists viewed 23 thousand. internal files of the auto giant. Among them, there were more than 2400 complaints about unreasonable increase in autopilot speed, more than 1500 complaints about problems with the braking function, 1000 accident reports, 3000records requesting a driver assistance system where customers expressed safety concerns.
According to Sebastian Mattes, editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt, it took a team of 12 journalists six months to evaluate the files. The publication Handelsblatt spoke with dozens of clients mentioned in the files, and received confirmation of resonant information.
In addition, journalists came across instructions for employees, which talked about how to communicate with customers. Employees were prohibited from transmitting reports or text messages about incidents via email or in the form of voice mail records. They were supposed to communicate information to customers only verbally.
Tesla declined to comment on journalists’ requests. The company’s litigation adviser Joseph Alm noted that this data was stolen and its publication in the media is unacceptable.
Recall that the recall of almost all electric vehicles sold in China from the American company Tesla is caused by a malfunction of braking and acceleration systems. We are talking about more than 1.1 million. cars produced at a plant in Shanghai or imported into China from the beginning of 2019 to April 2023.
