Certain investors and tech entrepreneurs areextremely skepticalthat the company can pull off such a product.

At least three of these cases are scheduled to go to trial next year.

Teslasettled that casefor an undisclosed amount in April of this year, on the eve of jury selection.

This image provided by Colorado State Patrol shows a Tesla Model 3 that crashed on May 16, 2022 in Clear Creek County, Colo. The widow of a man who died after his Tesla veered off the road and crashed into a tree while he was using its partially automated driving system in Colorado in 2022 is suing the car maker, claiming its marketing of the technology is dangerously misleading. The Autopilot system prevented Hans Von Ohain from being able to keep his Model 3 Tesla on the road and he died after the car burst into flames after hitting the tree, according to the lawsuit filed by Nora Bass in Colorado state court on May 3, 2024. A passenger was able to escape, it said.   (Colorado State Patrol via AP)

A Tesla Model 3 that crashed in 2022 in Clear Creek County, Colo., while automated driving features were engaged.Colorado State Patrol/AP

Tesla has won at least two verdicts on these grounds, Schreiber says.

But what happens when a self-driving Tesla strikes another motorist or pedestrian?

These are cases about shared responsibility, Schreiber argues.

Were these drivers bad actors?

But every actor needs a stage, and Tesla has perpetually set the stage for this continued bad conduct.

Nevertheless, Tesla programed the system so that it could be operated in such areas.

Unlike the drivers of these vehicles, John and Jane Q.

Citizen never agreed to sign up for the beta test, Schreiber says.

It has even been shown to failthe California DMVs road testfor a drivers license.

Thats what were dealing with here.