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This is basically hearsay. The claim in the title is based on this:

"“Elon’s tweet does not match engineering reality per CJ,” Miguel Acosta, chief of the California DMV’s autonomous vehicles branch, wrote in the memo"

So someone in the CA BMV claims a Tesla engineer (CJ) said this, but doesn't quote them, and the article doesn't elaborate on it.

Maybe it's true but they're clearly reaching a bit with the title.