A former engineer turned whistleblower is preparing to relaunch her defamation lawsuit against Tesla and Elon Musk after a federal appeals court overturned a previous ruling that had dismissed her case.
Cristina Balan, who worked as a mechanical engineer at Tesla, raised safety concerns in 2014 about the design of the Model S, specifically that carpets could curl under the pedals and interfere with braking, the BBC reported.
