Tesla wins again as lawsuit challenging Autopilot claims is dismissed

Tesla wins again as lawsuit challenging Autopilot claims is dismissed

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Tesla and CEO Elon Musk scored another win Tuesday when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing them of defrauding shareholders over the safety and effectiveness of the company’s driver assist technology.

US District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin said that plaintiffs failed to prove that Musk acted with “deliberate recklessness” when he claimed that Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving technology could drive safer than humans.

Many of Musk’s claims about self-driving capabilities amount to “corporate puffery,” or exaggerations about future products, the judge determined. Other claims could be categorized as “forward looking statements,” in that they addressed future expectations for the technology. The case was dismissed…

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