Federal safety regulators sent Tesla CEO Elon Musk a cease-and-desist letter over 'misleading claims' the automaker made about its company's Model 3 last year, a new cache of documents revealed.
Federal safety regulators sent Tesla CEO Elon Musk a cease-and-desist letter over"misleading claims" the automaker made about its company's Model 3 last year, a new cache of documents revealed this week.released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under a Freedom of Information Act, or FoIA, request.
The Model 3 did earn the highest-level rating NHTSA gives after its crash tests, and it scored record high numbers on some of the individual tests. But that brought a quick pushback from the safety agency, which first issued a statement asserting that there is"no 'safest' vehicle among those vehicles achieving 5-star ratings."
"Tesla's blog statements are entirely based on actual test results and NHTSA's own calculations for determining relative risk of injury and probability of injury," the company's general counsel replied in a letter the same month. The battle over how Tesla could promote the NHTSA’s crash test results marks just one of many disputes between the automaker and various government agencies. Tesla previously decided to stop participating in a federal probe of a fatal crash involving one of its vehicles operating in autopilot mode because of a dispute over the government-led process.
He faced the prospect of being forced out of the company entirely when the SEC subsequently accused him of violating the terms of their settlement. Musk settled the SEC lawsuit by agreeing to run by Tesla lawyers any public statement that might materially impact its stock.
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