I really fail to understand why anyone would buy a new Tesla. But because they do, we have TechCrunch news like this.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating 280,000 Tesla vehicles over reports of loss of steering control and power steering. The malfunctioning has frequently been accompanied by driver-facing messages indicating that power steering assist is reduced or disabled, according to the report.

The preliminary evaluation into 2023 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles comes after regulators received 12 complaints from owners…

It’s actually worse than it sounds.

Model 3 driver reported in May the “car steering felt stuck and slid off the road which resulted in crashing into a tree.”

All the new Tesla being rushed to market, literally delivered in the last month or so, already have produced over a dozen critical safety failure complaints including the car steering malfunctioning into a crash with a tree.

At what point does the government have an obligation to order Tesla to stop sales, or even production?

It reminds me of the guy who was almost immediately killed in a suspicious intersection crash after he took delivery of a new Tesla. And also reminds me of the two guys burned alive in front of their friends, after Tesla suddenly steered into a tree.

Tesla safety is so abnormally abysmal, it makes any and all the other car manufacturers look like they actually care about human lives.

Related: multiple Tesla owners around America have been dying from recent sudden “veered” crashes into trees.