Hi, everybody. I'm Brittany Lewis, a reporter here at Forbes.

Joining me now is my colleague, Alan Oansman, senior editor and author of the current climate newsletter.

Alan, thanks so much for coming on.

Hi, Brittany. Always good to be with you.

It's always good to be with you. You have a blockbuster story.

It's titled Elon Musk's self-driving Tesla lies are finally catching up to him.

And the consequences seem to be coming in the form of lawsuits and cases, a class action

lawsuit, cases in Miami and California.

Let's first start with the class action lawsuit.

What is it?

Why is it being filed?

Who's behind it?

Give us the details.

Right.

So early this week on Monday, a federal judge in San Francisco did certify this lawsuit that's

been pending for some years, actually, it's taken a while to get to this point,

but it was certified for class action status by a great many Tesla owners based in California.

And their complaint was, you know, we bought these vehicles because we'd been promised,

we were going to have this self-driving capability.

And this stretches all the way back to 2016 when Elon Musk first started talking about

making this capability available.

Year after year after year went by, the vehicles did not become autonomous or self-driving.

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