Tesla and Musk Beat Shareholder Lawsuit over Self-Driving Promises

Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk have won the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing them of defrauding shareholders by overstating the effectiveness and safety of the automaker's self-driving technology in order to boost its stock price. The U.S. District Judge ruled that shareholders failed to show Tesla and Musk should be liable for falsely promising technology that would drive safer than humans. The judge also mentioned that some of Tesla's and Musk's challenged statements were not necessarily false and that Musk's

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and encouraged inattentiveness.</p><p>Tesla vehicles have included &#34;Autopilot&#34; software designed to enhance self-driving capabilities, and the company has sold &#34;Full Self Driving&#34; software upgrades.</p><p>Martinez-Olguin said some of Tesla&#39;s and Musk&#39;s challenged statements were not necessarily false, while others could be excused because they addressed future expectations for the technology.</p><p>She said Musk&#39;s &#34;hands-on&#34; management did not mean he knew more than he let on, while his nearly $34 billion profit from selling Tesla shares in the February 2019 to February 2023 class period did not show he was cashing out at other shareholders&#39; expense.</p><p>Shareholders said Musk, the world&#39;s richest person, received about $39.4 billion of proceeds from those stock sales, approximately the same as Vermont&#39;s gross domestic product.</p><p>Lawyers for the shareholders did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Tesla did not immediately respond to similar requests. 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