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- Tesla is being sued by the widow of an Apple engineer who died in a 2018 car crash.
- The lawsuit cites statements from Elon Musk promoting the safety of Tesla's self-driving software.
- But Tesla's lawyers say they can't confirm if he ever said that, because they could be deepfakes.
Tesla's lawyers say that Elon Musk's past statements about the safety of its self-driving feature can't be trusted because they could be deepfakes, per court filings seen by Insider.
The electric car company is being sued by Sz Hua Huang, whose husband Walter Huang died in a car crash in 2018.