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WTF. That looks like a symptom of CAD/CAM "cost/weight optimisation" taken to extremes --- parts designed to be as light and flimsy as possible for their use-case, thus any small statistical outliers cause catastrophic failure.

(It's not only Tesla who does this, but perhaps they have been cutting it a bit too close, given their relative inexperience compared to other auto manufacturers.)



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