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Tesla Agrees To Settle Class Action Over Autopilot Billed As 'Safer' (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Tesla on Thursday reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit with buyers of its Model S and Model X cars who alleged that the company's assisted-driving Autopilot system was "essentially unusable and demonstrably dangerous." The lawsuit said Tesla misrepresented on its website that the cars came with capabilities designed to make highway driving "safer." The Tesla owners said they paid an extra $5,000 to have their cars equipped with the Autopilot software with additional safety features such as automated emergency braking and side collision warning. The features were "completely inoperable," according to the complaint. Under the proposed agreement, class members, who paid to get the Autopilot upgrade between 2016 and 2017, will receive between $20 and $280 in compensation. Tesla has agreed to place more than $5 million into a settlement fund, which will also cover attorney fees.
It was neither "leaked" nor "rumours and innuendo". It was, and I quote, "the settlement agreement that was sent to class representatives
Actually, all we know is what electrek.co claimed it to be. And assuming that's actually what it was, I think we can agree electrek.co wasn't a class representative and therefore would not have legitimately received a copy. Thus, somebody leaked it to them.
Front page news! Hire a skywriter! Pay a bunch of Victorian-era urchins to run around in the streets shouting "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"
Maybe you should follow Doug Field's lead and take some time off to recharge. Constantly carrying all this water for Elon seems to be wearing on you.