> In 2016, Elon Musk went on stage at a tech conference outside Los Angeles and made a bold statement about the self-driving capability of Teslas. Apart from t

> In 2016, Elon Musk went on stage at a tech conference outside Los Angeles and made a bold statement about the self-driving capability of Teslas. Apart from the video, wouldn't there have been lots of witnesses who where at the conference in person and saw him make that statement? Even apart from the "burden of proof" debate, it seems kinda dumb to try and set this precedent in a case where the prosecution could actually provide proof of the video being genuine relatively easily. (Unless you want to assume that Musk was playing 8D chess here and intentionally introducing the "everything is fake unless proven otherwise" defense in one of the rare situations where it could actually be disproven, to make it appear less devastating to the judge than it actually is. If that was the plan, the judge wasn't having it though.)