Tesla CEO Elon Musk has spent over a decade making misleading promises about his carmaker's so-called "self-driving" software.

The company's Autopilot and erroneously-named "Full Self-Driving" driver assistance features have been linked to hundreds of collisions and dozens of deaths since then. But instead of being held responsible for its CEO's misleading claims in court, Tesla has largely opted to settle with the victims, often fighting tooth and nail to prevent important crash data from reaching the public.

That all changed earlier this month, when a federal jury in Florida found Tesla partially liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving Autopilot, requiring Tesla to pay as much as $243 million — nearly a quarter-billion dollars — in punitive and compensatory damages to the parents of a

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