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I never understood how they didn't get in trouble for false advertising.

The case that particularly comes to mind is the 2016/2017 cars sold as "Full Self Driving Capable" that later ended up requiring a $2000 update.

I think they given the known manufacturing issues, and poor customer support at the time, whoever bought a Tesla wouldn't sue even if instead of having a car delivered, Musk would take a dump on their driveway.

I don’t know about Tesla but I know that Elon Musk is very careful to qualify all of his obscenely optimistic timelines with “I think that…” or something to the same effect. Most likely to shield himself from lawsuits. He was saying Tesla cars would be a self driving fleet back in like 2018. He was saying autonomous Teslas would be printing their owners money. Somehow investors don’t give a shit that he just keeps making up bollocks then never delivers.

no one bothered to start up a lawsuit

My understanding was that people did sue them and got reimbursed for FSD purchases. It's not a class action though - it's arbitration on a per case basis.

I wonder how much it would cost to finance a lawsuit against the likes of Tesla.

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