Ketamine-brained billionaire Elon Musk’s deathtrap car brand has a pretty sweet deal with the Chinese communist party where Tesla can just sue the fuck out of people for publicly complaining about safety failures. The AP reports that among the most recent of these wins was against a Zhang Yazhou who was in her Model 3 with her dad behind the wheel when the brakes suddenly shit out on them, sending the car crashing into a concrete barrier and the airbag into her face.
And now she’s on the hook for $23,000 and a public apology after the company won a defamation verdict against her for filing a complaint with a market regulator office over the 2021 crash. “Tesla’s employees were very arrogant and tough in dealing with my complaints,” Zhang said in an interview, describing her failed attempt to obtain the vehicle’s data from the crash. “I was burning with anger.”