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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Top Tesla engineer confesses he staged inaccurate Autopilot video at Elon Musk’s bidding

Tesla parked in the Silicon Valley town of Mountain View, Calif. (Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

Did Tesla CEO Elon Musk pull a Trevor Milton? 

The notorious Nikola boss was convicted in October of defrauding investors after falsely suggesting his zero-emission concept truck could drive on roads using his proprietary fuel cell technology. The filming however had been cleverly staged—in reality, it only rolled downhill with gravity performing all the work.

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