Unhappy Tesla customer gets company apology, five-day detention

Video shows a woman in a T-shirt that says ‘The brakes don’t work’ shouting similar accusations at a Shanghai auto show.

An unhappy customer who invaded the Tesla booth at the Shanghai auto show in China by clambering atop a car in protest, creating a social media stir and prompting an apology from the company, will be detained for five days, Shanghai police said on Tuesday. Police said the woman and a female accomplice — identified only by their surnames, Zhang and Li — “caused chaos” at the trade fair on Monday when they arrived at the Tesla display “to express their dissatisfaction due to a consumer dispute”. Zhang was ordered detained for “disrupting public order”, while Li received a warning, police said.