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Re:Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out ... by ISL on Sunday July 01, 2018 @02:56PM (#17436957)
The hardest part is the long-term testing. A failure mode that appears after ten or twenty years is the hardest to detect.

Imagine the financial impact of "Tesla recalls every Model S ever made due to stress-corrosion cracking in a critical chassis component"....

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Re:Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out ... by LoSboccacc on Sunday July 01, 2018 @03:26PM (#17437092)
Alfa had a mishap like that in the nineties and for thirty years sales dropped because “all alfa rust” even when the problem was long resolved, even when the actual model went out of production
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