This Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him.
By Jameson Dow
Published on May 2, 2026.
Tesla has been promising to deliver on promises of vehicles that can drive themselves for over a decade, but some owners are seeking their money back after years of such promises. Ben Gawiser, a Tesla owner, recently won a $10,600 judgment due to Tesla's failure to deliver. He purchased a Tesla Model 3 in 2021 for the company's Full Self-Driving software, which he claims does not deliver on its promises. After five years of uncertainty, Gawiser filed a small claims lawsuit in small claims court in Travis County, Texas, where he lives and where Tesla moved its headquarters to, claiming that Tesla's software was constantly improving and that the car would drive itself for reliability over the reliability of a human this year. However, Tesla has not yet delivered software capable of level 5 full self-driving to any owner, even on its own fleet of Robotaxis. The court ruled in Gawiser's favor in the amount of €10,672.88, the amount he paid for FSD, including taxes and court fees.
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