Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, July 13th.

Today on Forbes, Elon Musk's Robotaxi Dream could be a liability nightmare for Tesla and its owners.

Elon Musk's tightly controlled Tesla Robotaxi pilot program in Austin has managed to go weeks without a major accident. But on June 24th,

a Model Y in its test fleet dinged a parked Toyota Camry outside a popular pizza parlor.

It was a minor thing, but what if the car had hit a person instead?

Bullish Tesla investors are counting on Musk's Robotaxi dream to create a vast new revenue stream

from autonomous rides. That may happen, but it also creates a risk the company hasn't faced

before. Legal liability from self-driving tech failures. Tesla owners hoping to make money

Airbnb their cars and a company-run Robotaxi ride service

that Musk has touted for years could be on the hook as well.

At Tesla's shareholder meeting last June, Musk said, quote,

there will be some cars that Tesla owns itself.

But then for the fleet that is owned by our customers, it will be like an Airbnb thing.

You can add or subtract your car to the fleet whenever you want.

Just one tap on the Tesla app, and you can add your car to the fleet, and it makes money

for you while you're gone.

But Tesla owners hoping to cash in have more to consider.

Mike Nelson, an attorney who says he's been involved in over a thousand Tesla-related

accident cases and whose startup, Quantiv Risk, analyzes sensor and computer data from crashes,

said, quote, can I imagine a lawsuit against the owner of the car? Absolutely.

In addition to suing Tesla in future Robotaxy accident cases, he sees lawyers

coming after Tesla owners. He said, quote, plaintiff's attorneys are going to say something like

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