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Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 204 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (60 children)

Yes and in 2019 Musk's claims went even further, when he claimed it was stupid to buy anything but Tesla, because next year (2020) You would be able to make money on it as a RoboTaxi. As I recall it was $200,000.- you should be able to make on a Tesla per year!!! Why he sold them then is a bit strange?
He also claimed that instead of losing value, a Tesla would increase as much as five times in value in a year, because FSD was worth that much.

How this man hasn't been jailed for fraud years ago is beyond me, I could understand if USA was a corrupt country for the rich...
oh... Never mind.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 40 points 6 months ago (53 children)

I think he truly believed all that. He did not lie, he was wrong about the future. Or at least that would be his legal defense.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

He's claimed before that he honestly believes it each year by watching the progress the past X months, but suddenly all progress stops as their method hits a plateau. So they keep changing methods.

It's probably an honest mistake the first time or two, but he's done this every year since and has no credibility anymore.

After being wrong by a year or two, he should have explained what was going in, and shut up about it, with a simple I don't know when it'll be ready but you should see forward progress each year.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He is a smart guy and an idiot at the same time. I don’t know how it fits in the same person. He is not neurotypical.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He's not smart he is just in the elite club where he fails upwards, his name will be cemented beside DJ Khaled for most successful failure

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

get born rich

fail like a bitch

That's Elon

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

aww, he's a smidiot. That's idiartic, Elon! ;)

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