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CTOnews.com, December 8 (Xinhua)-- Tesla defended himself in a user's lawsuit over his autopilot, saying that "simply failing to achieve long-term and ambitious goals is not fraud."

In September, a Tesla owner filed a class action lawsuit against Tesla, saying Tesla was "suspected of misleading the public about his autopilot, enhanced autopilot and fully autonomous driving (FSD) technology".

Since 2016, Tesla has claimed that all his vehicles have "all the hardware" they need and can drive themselves through future software updates. However, the lawsuit comes as the carmaker has yet to deliver on its promises and over the past few years, some car owners have begun to suspect Tesla's incompetence.

Last week, Tesla applied to dismiss the lawsuit and made a rare comment that autopilot had not yet been achieved. In rejecting the motion, Tesla argued that his failure to achieve his goal did not constitute fraud, saying that "merely failing to achieve a long-term and ambitious goal is not fraud".

It is difficult for car owners to win the case, and they need to prove that Tesla deliberately misled customers into thinking that they were buying a vehicle that would become self-driving. It also needs to prove that Tesla knows he can't deliver on his promises, which may be hard to do.

CTOnews.com has learned that Tesla has never promised a specific time to achieve this goal, but its chief executive Elon Musk has said that Tesla will achieve autopilot by 2020, although this goal has been delayed several times.

In rejecting the motion, Tesla argued that the indictment instead shows that Tesla has been working hard to achieve the goal of autopilot.

On the contrary, the charges in the indictment show that Tesla has been constantly improving his ADAS technology by issuing software updates, with the goal of achieving more and better self-driving capabilities in the future.

Tesla also referred to comments made by the company and CEO Elon Musk, which constitute a warning of problems in bringing autopilot technology to market.

In addition, from an early stage, Tesla made it clear that there will still be a big time gap before regulators approve real autopilot, and there are great differences between different jurisdictions.

At the end of the argument, the company said, "the indictment did not determine the specific timetable promised by Tesla to release full autopilot to the public."

However, this at least shows that Tesla admitted that he had failed to achieve his autopilot goal.

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