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Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I bet if this goes to trial his lawyers are just going to argue that no reasonable person would believe these claims. That is just hyperbole there for it is not fraud.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe, but you could easily argue that no reasonable CEO would make such claims. And any company that size should have levels of review and therefore liability if there were people who clearly knew it was false.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Totally, though the hyperbole defense is real and much easier to argue. They will just say that Musk is part hype man for Tesla. Rhetorical hyperbole has been confirmed by the supreme Court to be a first amendment protected activity. You may feel this is dumb, but was also how John Oliver was able to repeatedly tell Bob Murray to eat shit.