A Tesla owner just won $10,600 after suing the automaker over a failed promise. He was told his car would drive itself, but Full Self-Driving mode has never delivered on that promise. Ben Gawiser purchased a Tesla Model 3 in 2021, paying the $10,000 extra for Full Self-Driving software. Over the last few years, the price of the software has slowly increased as updates have continued to improve its capabilities. This was back when you could pay up-front for FSD, which is now only available as a subscription. He waited five years. The car never had the ability to drive itself. If you ask Tesla fanboys on X (formerly Twitter), they’d tell you that Elon Musk never promised a fully autonomous car — he was just saying that a fully autonomous car is possible with Tesla’s technology, but it wouldn’t happen right away. However, this is false. Tesla has been claiming that FSD would enable autonomous driving since 2016. In 2021, Elon Musk promised that “the car will drive itself for the reliability in excess of a human this year.” He later said that you can use your personal Tesla as a robotaxi. This is not a vague discussion of possibilities. This is a blatant statement that FSD would allow autonomous driving. That is what Gawiser and others paid for. And while some Tesla fans are willing to forgo what they were promised out of brand loyalty, the facts are that drivers are not getting what they were promised. Earlier this year, Tesla’s official X account shared various stories about blind people and frail elderly women using FSD to regain “freedom” to drive again. It also claimed that FSD can help prevent hydroplaning. A lot of drivers in the EV community grew concerned, sharing stories of FSD malfunctioning, especially in