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Tesla whistleblower breaks his silence

by brisance on 8/8/20, 3:27 AM with 25 comments

• by threatofrain on 8/8/20, 4:23 AM

  Is there any verification to his core claims? His videos meander so much, his claims are vague, and the statement about firing his attorneys is concerning.

• by xedeon on 8/8/20, 4:16 AM

  Everything you need to know about Martin Tripp: https://twitter.com/enn_nafnlaus/status/1291854536924168195

• by ListenLinda on 8/8/20, 4:13 AM

  It appears the person in the video is Martin Tripp.

  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...

  Martin Tripp, a slight man of 40 who’d spent his career in a series of low-level manufacturing jobs before finding his way to the assembly line at the Gigafactory. Tripp later claimed to be an idealist trying to get Tesla to tighten its operations; Musk saw him as a dangerous foe who engaged in “extensive and damaging sabotage,” as he wrote in a staff memo.

• by jwilber on 8/8/20, 6:56 AM

  That video was very... weird. Not much to take away from a man rambling for 11 minutes.

  I’m not saying I do/don’t believe his claims, I just don’t know what they are to begin with.

• by holtkam2 on 8/8/20, 3:58 AM

  Can someone fill me in on how this story started?

• by xiphias2 on 8/8/20, 4:42 AM

  The stats of Tesla deaths per million miles is better than moat cars, so until there's a proof that those statistics are biased, I side with Tesla.

  This is very different from the diesel emissions lie that is killing millions of people silently every year.