For years, Tesla has faced intense public and regulatory scrutiny over the safety of its self-driving software.
Now, a former Tesla manager is blowing the whistle on what he says is the the Elon Musk-led automaker’s dangerous approach to testing and deploying its autonomous vehicle technology.
In a federal lawsuit reported by The Independent, Javier Medrano accused Tesla of turning its autonomous test fleet in Houston into 24/7 “rolling hazards” by “aggressively” scaling up operations.
The size of the fleet more than doubled to a size that Medrano claims was impossible to oversee on his own,. Despite consistently pleading higher-ups for more help, he alleges his warnings were ignored, and he was later fired.
