Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Tesla Over Misrepresented Claims About Self-Driving Feature

A Peninsula law firm has filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Tesla alleging the electric automaker mispresented autonomous driving features for which many customers paid thousands of dollars.

Burlingame-based Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy filed the lawsuit on behalf of plaintiff Briggs Matsko, a Central Valley man who paid $5,000 for a package of self-driving features that the lawsuit alleges failed to live up to the company’s claims, The Verge reports.

“As alleged in the complaint, people have relied upon the representations of TESLA that the self-driving capabilities are completely safe, when TESLA knew they had many problems,” plaintiff attorney Joseph Cotchett said in a statement.