It's refreshing to see a large company that realizes that getting in front of an issue before it's an issue will keep you in better standing with customers, press, shareholders and general public than trying to hide your mistakes in the hope that people will never find out.
Large in the sense of market cap, maybe. But nowhere remotely close to the size and scale of the large automotive companies. Obviously, Tesla can be more agile.
With approximately 12,000 employees, Tesla is a large company[1]. It's at the small end of the large companies, and at less than 10% of all the other major automakers, but it's still large.
It's refreshing to see a large company that realizes that getting in front of an issue before it's an issue will keep you in better standing with customers, press, shareholders and general public than trying to hide your mistakes in the hope that people will never find out.