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CTOnews.com, April 28 (Reuters and Bloomberg)-Tesla's lawyer has filed a shocking defense in an autopilot death lawsuit: Tesla CEO Elon Musk (Elon Musk)'s past statements about the capabilities of autopilot software are not credible because they may be deeply forged video or audio (CTOnews.com Note: deepfake).

Tesla made the argument as a reason why Musk should not have blamed the company for causing the death of an Apple engineer in a fatal car accident. The plaintiff in the lawsuit is the family of the Apple engineer Walter Huang, who drove a Tesla Model X into a fatal car accident on a California highway in 2018. His family believes that Tesla's autopilot software, Autopilot, was the culprit because it failed to identify and avoid roadblocks in time. They asked Musk to testify to explain some of his remarks about the security of Autopilot software.

These comments include Musk's claim in an interview in 2016 that "Model S and Model X can now drive themselves more safely than humans." The interview is still available online.

Tesla, a lawyer, said Musk had no memory of the remarks and that "as a public figure, he is often made with deeply forged videos and audio that he has never said or done."

But Evette D. Pennypacker, the Santa Clara County Superior Court judge in charge of the case, said lawyer Tesla's argument was "deeply disturbing". She said: "their position is that because Musk is famous and is more likely to be the target of deep forgery, his remarks in the public domain are unrestricted. In other words, Musk and others in his position can say whatever they want and then evade responsibility for what they say and do under the pretext that their recordings may be deeply forged. "

Judge Evette Pennypacker tentatively ordered Musk to conduct a limited three-hour collection of evidence on the comments, and a hearing is scheduled for Thursday to finalize the content of the evidence, and the lawsuit will enter the trial stage on July 31.

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