The Tesla Promise That Became A $14.5 Billion Lawsuit

Ajouté : 2026-06-08

[00:00:00]October 2016.

[00:00:02]Tesla's website states every vehicle produced from this point forward has all the hardware needed for full self-driving capability.

[00:00:12]This appears on tesla.com.

[00:00:16]In marketing emails, in product announcements, customers pay between 8,000 and 15,000 extra for the full self-driving package based on this statement. Millions of vehicles are sold.

[00:00:33]January 2025, nine years later.

[00:00:37]Musk is on Tesla's own earnings call. He says, "The truth is that we will need to replace all HW3 computers in vehicles where FSD was purchased.

[00:00:50]That is going to be painful and difficult. The hardware installed in approximately 4 million vehicles worldwide cannot achieve the promised capability.

[00:01:02]Nine years, millions of cars, no delivery, no refund policy, no retrofit timeline.

[00:01:12]As of April 2026, Tesla is facing up to 14.5 billion dollars in lawsuits."