Tesla has gotten away with so much more than the rest of the car industry.
If Ford/GM/VW etc had made these outrageous claims then failed to deliver, their stocks would have been massacred and the government would have dropped on them like a ton of lead.
As one example, Audi was days away from abandoning the US market from the fallout of the "sudden acceleration" fiasco. Litigation was flying in all directions, and a number of government agencies investigated.
Eventually investigators showed that it was driver error. The quirky offset to the pedals meant the drivers were mashing the throttle rather than the brakes. Instances of sudden acceleration disappeared once a shift interlock was enacted.
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