Tesla Must Face Customer Classes in Self-Driving Fraud Suit (1)

A federal judge certified two classes of customers accusing Tesla Inc. of fraud over allegedly misleading statements the company made about its electric vehicles’ self-driving capabilities.

Thousands of people each month likely read on Tesla’s website, newsletters, and blog posts that its vehicles are equipped with the hardware necessary for “full self-driving capability,” said Judge Rita F. Lin of the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday.

One of the certified classes is for those who purchased or leased a Tesla and paid a separate amount for the full self-driving technology package from May 2017 to ...