EXCLUSIVETesla's Cybertruck 災害: Insider 明らかにする／漏らすs 'serious safety 問題／発行するs' behind scenes of EV rollout - as drone （映画の）フィート数 shows hundreds of unfinished トラックで運ぶs 支援するd up at Texas factory

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顧客 報告（する）／憶測s that Tesla has?停止（させる）d 配達／演説／出産s for its futuristic Cybertruck まっただ中に 恐らく dangerous safety 問題／発行するs with its gas pedal come as no surprise to one former insider.

Engineer Cristina Balan told DailyMail.com?that the gas and ブレーキ pedal safety 問題／発行するs she 証言，証人／目撃するd a １０年間 ago with Tesla's Model S, which led to her coming 今後 as a whistleblower, are now likely happening again with Cybertruck.

'After I left, it got worse,' said Balan, who is 告訴するing her former boss Elon Musk's electric car company for defamation.

'I have やめる a few people that are 権利 now in?Tesla,' Balan said.?'They brought some serious safety 問題／発行するs to my attention.'?

New Cybertruck owners have 述べるd its gas pedal as a 'deathtrap,' 論証するing how?the pedal cover can slide off the accelerator and become snagged on the carpet, locking it in place and spurring the car to 加速する at 最高の，を越す 速度(を上げる）.

Balan's 公表，暴露s come as new 国民 drone （映画の）フィート数 shows 十分な (n)艦隊／(a)素早いs of unfinished Cybertrucks 支援するd up over parts 関心s ― 同様に as Musk's 告示 that? as many as 14,000 Tesla 労働者s will be laid off 予定 恐らく to flagging EV sales.?

Balan, who joined Tesla's Fremont, California, factory in 2010 as a 上級の computer-補佐官d design (CAD) engineer, is now 戦う／戦いing Tesla in 法廷，裁判所 over what she 述べるs as 報復 for her 成果／努力s to 訂正する a dangerous 問題／発行する with the Tesla Model S.

貧しく made 床に打ち倒す mats, によれば Balan, showed a 傾向 to curl underneath the all-electric Tesla sedan's ブレーキ pedals 妨げるing drivers from slowing 負かす／撃墜する their 乗り物s, not unlike the 最近の 問題／発行する that jams Cybertruck pedals into 十分な 速度(を上げる）.

'They said that they will try to を取り引きする it,' Balan told DailyMail.com, referring to 現在の Tesla 従業員s and 可能性のある 未来 whistleblowers who have reached out.

But she worries that her own 非常に長い and now very public 合法的な 戦う／戦い with Tesla, with 訴訟s over both wrongful termination and defamation across the past １０年間, might be 脅すing other Tesla 従業員s away from c oming 今後 on Cybertruck.

'People, good engineers, they are afraid to say something is wrong,' Balan said, 'because they know that they will go on the same 跡をつける I was.'

While there has been no 公式の／役人 告示 from Tesla, several 顧客s have 地位，任命するd text messages they have received from the company?cancelling their Cybertruck '配達／演説／出産 任命' 予定 to an unexplained and '予期しない 延期する' regarding 準備 of their 乗り物.?

Tesla 特記する／引用するd an 明示していない parts 問題／発行する, によれば these texts to 顧客s, which could relate to Cybertruck's accelerator pedal covers.?

'It appears they need at least until April 20th to 訂正する the 問題／発行する, but it could be 潜在的に longer than that,' a Tesla 代表者／国会議員 texted one 顧客,?Max Pyko of Birmingham, Alabama.

'Tesla is working on getting 改善するd parts to all 影響する／感情d 場所s asap,' the company's text message continued.?

And new drone （映画の）フィート数, 得るd by DailyMail.com, shows 早い 成果／努力s to 拡大する Tesla's Giga factory outside Austin, Texas ― where an 概算の 600 Cybertrucks sit idle to the west and east 味方するs of Texas 明言する／公表する 主要道路 130.

The Cybertruck had been 急ぐd into 生産／産物 at Tesla's Texas Giga facto ry,?as 弁護士／代理人／検事s for construction 労働者s have 申し立てられた／疑わしい in 最近の years,?にもかかわらず on-場所／位置 safety hazards and incomplete construction of the 施設 itself.

And at least one Cybertruck 顧客 in California has recently come 今後 （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that the EV's ブレーキs 機能不全d just weeks after 購入（する）, sending their 乗り物 衝突，墜落ing into the 政治家 of a road 調印する.

In a 地位，任命する on the?Cybertruck Owners Club 会議, the driver said they 試みる／企てるd to slow the Cybertruck by 圧力（をかける）ing the ブレーキs, only to find they did not engage ― 追加するing that the 空気／公表する 捕らえる、獲得するs also did not （軍隊を）展開する，配備する when the EV 衝突する／食い違うd with the 政治家.

Images of the 出来事/事件 showed the shiny steel 前線 end 粉砕するd, the 味方する パネル盤 hanging off and the hood bent on the 味方する of the 衝撃.

Balan's 知らせるd outside 査定／評価 of Tesla's 現在進行中の Cybertruck 状況／情勢 is that some of the company's 現在の engineers may be locked in a 戦う／戦い with 管理／経営 to 直す／買収する，八百長をする the EV's safety 問題／発行するs, にもかかわらず 脅しs to their 暮らしs.

'From my experience, and from my team's experience, I can 保証する you that at one point one engineer or one 経営者／支配人 tried to 直す／買収する，八百長をする it,' Balan told DailyMail.com.?

'The 量 of 脅すing and the attacks on the engineers 拡大するd if they 設立する an 問題／発行する or a problem,' she explained.?'This is how the mentality of Tesla is.'

DailyMail.com has reached out for comment to Tesla, which 解散させるd its US マスコミ relations team in October 2020.

Balan?― a 選び出す／独身 mother who has spent the past two years 戦う／戦いing breast 癌 while raising her 14-year-old son ― is now once again in 連邦の 法廷，裁判所, in the 9th 回路・連盟 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告, against Tesla.?

Balan and her lawyers want the 法廷，裁判所 to vacate Tesla's 仲裁 order, which they argue is biased, so that Balan can continue to 追求する her?defamation and 名誉き損 事例／患者 against the EV 製造者.

'When I heard about the diagnosis, it was one week, imagine that, one week after Tesla won their 嘆願（書） to 確認する their 仲裁 in California,' Balan told DailyMail.com. 'And I was already 荒廃させるd by that thing [the breast 癌 diagnosis].'?

But her 合法的な woes began さらに先に 支援する, in 2014, when Balan 試みる／企てるd to bring the 床に打ち倒す mat's 'curling' defect 直接／まっすぐに to Musk's attention, alarming middle-経営者／支配人s ― whom she says not only ignored her 関心s, but tried to keep her 静かな.

'My entire team asked for a 会合 and said, "Cristina, if you are there and if you have the guts to go higher up, if you want to go to Elon, we are coming with you,"' Balan said.?

'It was an entire team at Tesla 支援する then. It was not just me.'

手渡す-written 公式文書，認めるs by a member of Tesla's HR department appear to 確認する Balan's 告訴，告発s of wrongful termination: one 公式文書，認める 追加するd to her 出口 interview reads '脅すd if she spoke up.'?

For many of the years since then, Balan's 戦う／戦い with Tesla has been held in 私的な, 予定 to いわゆる '軍隊d 仲裁 協定s' written into her and most other Tesla 従業員s' 契約s with the company.?

The 協定s 強要する 従業員s to 扱う any of their grievances outside of 法廷，裁判所, 表面上は with an 独立した・無所属 and impartial third-party '仲裁者' 事実上の／代理 to 解決する the 論争.

Balan was 効果的に 解放（する）d from 部分s of her 軍隊d 仲裁 協定 in June 2019, when a US?地区 法廷，裁判所 裁判官 in Seattle,?Marsha J. Pechman, said that her defamation and 名誉き損 事例／患者 against Tesla could proceed in 連邦の 法廷，裁判所.

Tesla's '幅の広い confidentiality 条項,' 裁判官 Pechman 支配するd, 'leads to the 厳しい, one-味方するd result that Tesla may 公然と attack 原告／提訴人 [Balan] while she may not 公然と defend herself.'?

'The 条項 also 巻き込むs public safety 関心s,' the 裁判官 continued, 'when 適用するd to 従業員s who, as 申し立てられた／疑わしい here, 捜し出す to 通知する the public that a car company is failing to adequately 演説（する）／住所 design 欠陥s.'?