Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier.
Stunned, Zhang gazed at the deflating airbag in front of her. She could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car’s brakes — and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.
Zhang is not the only one to find herself in the crosshairs of Tesla, which is led by Elon Musk, among the richest men in the world and a self-described “ free speech absolutist.” Over the last four years, Tesla has sued at least six car owners in China who had sudden vehicle malfunctions, quality complaints or accidents they claimed were caused by mechanical failures.
Ransacked doesn’t mean plundered, you can ransack your house looking for your keys. Although it also has been plundered, we know they’ve taken data that they shouldn’t have at the very least. Their also taking all the money and putting it in a big pile in their office
As far as the lawsuit, they’re saying Tesla has been stonewalling them. If Tesla paid a settlement, it would’ve included a settlement agreement and likely an NDA - when they say more money, it probably means Tesla made them an offer they refused
dictionary entry
even you wrote ransack … for to denote the other sense
That wasn’t an accident, it was an example of the more common meaning and how the article should be interpreted…
Outside a historical context, recklessly/destructively searching is almost always the meaning. It doesn’t even imply you found anything, so you ransack and pillage, you ransack and seize, you ransack but don’t take anything