This Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla’s FSD lies (Updated)

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<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/04/Tesla-FSD-1500.webp?w=1500" /></div><p>For over a decade now, Tesla has sold a promise of vehicles that can drive themselves, even stating that every car it produced <a href="https://electrek.co/2024/08/24/tesla-deletes-its-blog-post-stating-all-cars-have-self-driving-hardware/">had all the hardware for self-driving</a>.</p> <p>But after years of the company being unable to deliver, some owners want their money back. Ben Gawiser is one of those owners, who recently won a $10,600 judgment due to Tesla’s failure to deliver. But Tesla kept fighting to delay payment, even just a few days at a time.</p> <p>(<em>5/29 Update</em>,<em> original post 5/2</em>: He finally got his money back. This article has been updated with new information below)</p> <a class="more-link" href="https://electrek.co/2026/05/29/this-tesla-owner-won-10k-in-court-for-teslas-fsd-lies-tesla-is-still-fighting-him/#more-465509">more…</a>