Until 2014, Cristina Balan was a rising star within the electric car firm in the us. She spoke to our Technology Editor zoe kleinman. I was the only woman in the team, like engineering. And in the beginning, it was great. In the early days, Cristina Balan was doing so well at tesla, her initials were engraved on the cars batteries, but she says it wasnt long before things took a turn for the worse. Everything went south when i realised that they were hiding some critical safety issues. She claims they pretended that they didnt know. And you decided to go right to the top. You went to elon musk himself . I tried to. And what exactly was the safety concern . They realised that they make a Design Engineering mistake on the carpets. You know, the carpets that you have under the adults and in the front of the car. So what happened is those carpets, they were curling under the brake and under the acceleration. Cristina further claims that shed heard there were complaints made about this issu
They were hiding some critical safety issues. She claims, they pretendeds that they didnt know. And you decided to go right to the top. You went to elon musk himself . I tried to. And what exactly was the safety concern . They realised that they make a Design Engineering mistake on the carpets. You know, every the carpets that you have on under the adults and in the front of the car. So what happened is those carpets, they were curling under the brake and under the acceleration. Cristina further claims that shed heard there were complaints made about this issue. So she believes tesla was aware of it. She claims that when she shared her worries, teslas management turned hostile. She lost herjob, sued the firm and won. But then tesla did something unexpected. They dare to accuse me of serious crimes like embezzlement. Theyjust purely invented those with one scope in mind, to give a lesson to everybody who dare to speak up. Tesla said in a Public Statement that cristina had used Company R
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Proposed for continuance to april 27, 2017. Since its onions commissioners under our discretionary review calendars item 14 214 states street credit a request that staff is in support to continue to march 29, 2015 and 15 a for case 659 guerrero street east side of guerrero street, between 18th and 19th streets, lot 56 in assessorss block 3588 those decreasing have been withdrawn the acting Zoning Administrator consider a continuance of item 15 b at 659 guerrero street for the variances to march 22 which is just a Zoning Administrators hearing also commissioners under our regular calendar item 1279 cragmont avenue on january 26th after hearing and closing pub an intelligent to disagree and continue staff is recommend an indefinite continuance i might want to continue to a date certain to allow the project sponsor so modify it for a project to be approved. Do you have a date. June 1st is an appropriate date those are all the items proposed for continuance i have a couple of speaker cards