• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Makes very little sense to downvote this, there are several points where Musk could go to jail. Both regarding fraud towards investors and also customers.

    Probably the most obvious case is that Musk claimed in 2019 it would be possible to earn money on owning a Tesla, because it would be able to be used as a robo taxi by 2020.
    But Full self driving required for Robo Taxi is still nowhere near ready.

    He also claimed that Tesla would NOT depreciate like other cars, because they are the most future proof cars you can buy.
    But Tesla cars have since depreciated faster than almost any other car, in part because of Tesla price reductions, and in part because the promises came to nothing.

    There could also be situations considering Hyperloop, where he promised faster and cheaper public transport, and that it was actually easy to make. But the projects he has accepted all came to nothing.

    There may be cases on his promises every year since 2016 that Tesla cars would be capable of FSD next year.

    He has also made wildly exaggerated promises about SpaceX, that may constitute fraud towards investors. Starting a Mars base 2022, and manned missions 2024, I don’t recall any SpaceX Mars missions.

    People have invested their pensions on these false claims, and at some point, I have no doubt they will result in lawsuits, at least some of them.