“For nearly a decade Elon Musk has claimed Teslas can truly drive themselves. They can’t. Now California regulators, a Miami jury and a new class action suit are calling him on it.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/08/20/elon-musks-self-driving-tesla-lies-are-finally-catching-up-to-him/
BREAKING: "For nearly a decade Elon Musk has claimed Teslas $TSLA can truly drive themselves. They can’t.
Now California regulators, a Miami jury and a new class action suit are calling him on it." -Forbes pic.twitter.com/xFd6VfTgdD
— Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) August 21, 2025
A federal jury in Miami just ordered Tesla to pay $243 million in damages over a fatal 2019 crash involving Autopilot.
California regulators aren’t waiting for court verdicts. “Tesla (Nasdaq: TSLA) suffered dual setbacks in California this week as a federal judge allowed drivers to pursue a class-action lawsuit over self-driving promises while state regulators continued blocking the company’s robotaxi expansion plans.” https://thedeepdive.ca/federal-judge-approves-tesla-class-action-over-self-driving-claims/
Tesla never demonstrated a long-distance autonomous drive. Not once. “Judge Rita Lin said the common question of whether Tesla lacked sensors to achieve high-level autonomy plus its inability to ‘demonstrate a long-distance autonomous drive with any of its vehicles’ justified group lawsuits.” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-drivers-pursue-class-action-150638985.html