Oracle Exec Sues Tesla Over Full Self Driving Promises And Wins $10,600
May 20, 20263 hours
Zachary Shahan
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Class action lawsuits against Tesla have been running for a while based on the claims and promises Elon Musk has made about Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) over the past decade. Basically, people who spent a lot of money expecting Full Self Driving to work within a reasonable period of time are arguing that they got ripped off and conned. (I paid $6,000 for FSD almost 7 years ago, in August 2019, for example, while some people paid up to $15,000 for FSD at its peak price.) There are class action lawsuits on this and other topics in the US and in Australia. I don’t think there are any in Europe yet, but let’s see what happens.
In that Australia one, the judge just recently issued a stern warning to Tesla because he feels like Tesla is dragging its feet in the case. I’m very curious to see what happens in Australia once they push through this blockade.
However, not everyone is going the class action route and waiting on these cases. A director of software engineering at Oracle who feels he got duped recently filed a Texas small claims court claim against Tesla. Ben Gawiser argued that he should have received unsupervised Full Self Driving by now. Tesla didn’t show up to court, so Gawiser got $10,600 in a default judgment as well as $72.88 in court costs. The Texan company was notified, but lawyers representing Tesla claimed they weren’t aware of the hearing or the default judgement and filed a motion asking to extend the appeal deadline. The judge wasn’t buying it and denied the motion. So, yes, Tesla owes Gawiser $10,672.88.
Does this set any precedence for the bigger class action cases on this matter? I have no idea, but my instinct would say no.
Gawiser also complained about the lack of communication from Tesla. “I literally had zero communication from them, pretty much since I bought the car. It has been complete radio silence,” said Gawiser. It’s an interesting point. Clearly, it had gotten to the point that Gawiser was not a happy customer.
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