Tesla launched a car insurance product, then spent the next 24 hours fixing it

Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge Just a few hours after Tesla launched its in-house car insurance product in California on August 28th, the company stopped offering rate quotes and suspended access to the insurance website. But during the time Tesla’s insurance site was working and offering owners quotes, some people weren’t happy with the results. The problem with starting up a whole new part of your business is... you have to start up a whole new part of your business Tesla tells The Verge those two things are actually related; the company says it found “bugs” that were affecting some customers’ rate quotes, but it declined to offer any specifics beyond that. The company says it will get the website back up as soon as that’s resolved, without saying when that... Continue reading…