I thought this was an interesting move by this owner among many stiffed by Tesla for failure to deliver FSD
This is a business insider article via Apple News. No link available but most sb able to find and read
The following excerpt has particulars but I will add several points. He was able to sue in small claims court with no attorney fees. Tesla failed to even show thus his complaint was uncontested. Apparently Tesla has not been forthcoming in paying the judgment,
In the article, it says he will seek a writ from court allowing him to seize property from a local Tesla showroom. LOL This could get more interesting
This tech exec sued Tesla over its Full Self-Driving promises — and won
By Tom Carter
Ben Gawiser, an Oracle executive, sued Tesla after waiting years for fully autonomous driving.
Gawiser is one of many Tesla owners whose vehicles are too old to support unsupervised full self-driving.
He won over $10,000 in a default judgment after arguing that Tesla had “failed to deliver.”
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FWIW, Elektrek actually picked up on this story back in early May
https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/this-tesla-owner-won-10k-in-court-for-teslas-fsd-lies-tesla-is-still-fighting-him/
This Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla’s FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him.
This suggestion/quote seemed rather fitting for those Tesla owners who seem to like being self-anointed activists:
Just imagine if American owners who had had enough of the lies acted as a co-operative rather than individuals.
All it would take was for every single disgruntled owner to submit the same small claims court paperwork on the same day from tens of thousands of different local courts across the nation and then it would be exceedingly likely that Tesla would time default on them all.
No lawyers, no class action shennanigans, just thousands upon thousands of us little people taking back some power.
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Small claims court is genuinely underused for exactly this kind of consumer dispute — no lawyers, low barrier, and Tesla not even bothering to show up says a lot about how they view these cases. The writ to seize showroom property would be a spectacle worth watching. Plenty of other owners in the same boat who paid thousands for a promise that kept getting redefined.
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