Tesla shareholders filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday against both the EV company and CEO Elon Musk, alleging they made “materially false and misleading statements” about the safety of their robotaxis and the regulatory scrutiny that comes with launching autonomous vehicles. Tesla launched its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, on June 22, but there’s a human “safety monitor” in the passenger seat, and the robotic vehicles are geofenced to a relatively small area in the city.

Despite the precautions from Tesla, there have been several videos posted online of scary incidents with the robotaxis acting erratically in Austin. The new lawsuit cites a Bloomberg article from June 23 titled “Tesla Robotaxi Videos Show Speeding, Driving Into Wrong Lane,” to explain how the robotaxis were

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