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>How do you have so little quality control and insight into your manufacturing process that someone on your own production line can introduce a new step to your truck manufacturing process that no one noticed?

That's legal covering the company.

I'd bet this was just a general design flaw.

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To me both sound plausible (that the process was added, and that it’s a fabricated story). Either way we will never know, and ultimately it’s Tesla’s responsibility to make sure the accelerator pedal doesn’t get suck in the on position due to manufacturing defects.

We’ll find out in discovery if a lawsuit around this ever happens, I suppose

> That's legal covering the company.

Er, how does it cover the company? Company is responsible regardless.

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