India, Jan. 29 -- The US securities regulator is reportedly investigating Tesla CEO Elon Musk's role in shaping the electric vehicle manufacturer's self-driving claims, reports Bloomberg News. The publication has cited a person with knowledge of the matter claiming that the US agency has launched a probe into the matter, which allegedly falsely claimed that Tesla cars could drive on their own without any human intervention.

The automaker has been recently accused of staging a video that demonstrated its electric cars' self-driving technology. Reuters cited a senior engineer of the automaker who claimed that the October 2016 video that Tesla used to promote its self-driving technology was actually staged to show capabilities like stopping...