A Tesla manager was fired after blowing the whistle on “severe, systemic safety oversight defects” that allegedly turned the company’s much-hyped autonomous vehicles into round-the-clock “rolling hazards,” according to a federal lawsuit reviewed by The Independent.
Javier Medrano, 32, oversaw real-world Full Self-Driving testing operations for a fleet of Teslas being trialled in Houston, Texas. He accuses the electric carmaker of making local thoroughfares “highly dangerous” by more than doubling the number of vehicles and test drivers he was tasked with overseeing, all by himself.
