>off-road incident
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.
> If the cracks persist and worsen, it may result in the wheel detaching entirely.
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> ...engineers determined that continued use under strain could eventually lead to separation of the wheel stud from the hub.
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?
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...
> however much you distrust the media, it's not enough...
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.