Former Tesla Engineer Says Elon Musk Threatened to Deport Her Team for Pointing Out a Problem With the Brakes

[Eugene]

Source: Futurism

Apr 21, 10:33 AM EDT by Victor Tangermann

Former Tesla Engineer Says Elon Musk Threatened to Deport Her Team for Pointing Out a Problem With the Brakes

A Tesla engineer has accused Tesla of threatening her team with deportation after bringing up a brake safety issue with CEO Elon Musk in 2014.

Balan was fired after informing Musk that she was worried floor carpets could curl up underneath the pedals in Model S vehicles, she says, in a major braking safety hazard.

According to Balan, she was simply following Musk's orders to "talk to me" if staffers thought it was the "fastest way to solve a problem for the benefit of the whole company," according to an email he sent to all employees in 2013, as quoted by Electrek.

Instead of listening to her concerns, Balan says that a team of Tesla lawyers threatened to deport members of her team who were waiting on green card applications, if she didn't resign on the spot — which she did, in protest. The members had stood behind her decision to raise flags over the floor carpet issue.

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Read more: https://futurism.com/tesla-engineer-elon-musk-deport-team-safety

[FadedMullet]

1. Tell me, please, who were these green card holding engineers and why were they allowed....

.....to take American Jobs from American Engineers? Oh, wait, they were cheaper, weren’t they?

[NEOH]

2. This should go into General Discussion too. nt

[SupportSanity]

3. I agree. Move it to General Discussion. Everyone should be in on this.

[Old Crank]

4. In Germany the TUV, testing agency

Has Teslas in the top 10 of problem cars. The actual brakes are an issue.