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Feb 2023
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The Sunday Read: ‘Elon Musk’s Appetite f...

The New York Times
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In February, the first lawsuit against Tesla for a crash involving its driver-assistance system, Autopilot, will go to trial. The slew of trials set to follow will be a costly fight that the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, has vowed to take on in court. When Tesla released its Autopilot feature in October 2015, Musk touted the feature as “probably bett ... Show More
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