It happened in 2017 that the American car manufacturer Tesla launched its Model 3 car on the market in a very short time. CEO Elon Musk spoke to journalists about a “manufacturing hell”. And one of his security chiefs later apparently found that Musk had not made a possibly ironic comment about the pressure Tesla was under. But the description of a daily reality in his workshops.

In any case, Justine White, that was the name of the head of security, wrote an incendiary email to one of the company’s human resources managers. The conditions at the Fremont, California, plant deprived her of sleep at night.

“It’s only a matter of time before someone dies,” she later said.

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