Tesla, which remains in the global spotlight with its autonomous driving technologies, has secretly altered the contracts of customers who purchased vehicles in the past. The company has retroactively added the term "supervised" to the purchase agreements for "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) packages sold between 2016 and 2024.
This situation, noticed by multiple Tesla owners, has baffled users who wanted to access their old documents to pursue their legal rights. Not only are the links to the revised documents inaccessible, but the original contracts have also been completely removed from the online system. This move by the company comes shortly after facing legal pressure over its marketing strategies for self-driving car technology.
For many years, Tesla called this software package "Fully Autonomous Driving CapabilityIt marketed the system with the label "..." and claimed that with future updates, vehicles would be able to drive themselves. However, when the calendar showed the year 2024, the company changed the name of the system to "Fully Autonomous Driving (Supervised)By changing it to "...", it clearly declared that human oversight was still needed. The real tragedy behind this wordplay is... Elon MuskThis came to light with a statement Musk made last April. Musk officially admitted that vehicles with older hardware (HW3) would never reach an unsupervised, or fully driverless, level due to insufficient memory bandwidth.
Vehicle owners preparing for legal proceedings should refer to the motor vehicle purchase agreements they signed in 2019 and 2020. they can no longer reach The company states that these critical documents containing FSD details have been replaced with obsolete pages, while users can still access other Tesla documents without any problems. Moreover, user agreements aren't the only thing the company has deleted. In August of last year, Tesla completely removed an old blog post from its website, published in October 2016, which claimed that all vehicles leaving the factory were equipped to perform autonomous driving far more safely than humans.
Rising lawsuits and accidents are putting pressure on the company.
While all these covert document operations continue, the legal circle is tightening around the automotive giant. The California Department of Motor Vehicles found the brand's marketing language misleading and issued a warrant.AutopilotThe state prohibited the company from using the term "manufacturing license." The company was forced to comply with this request to avoid having its manufacturer's license suspended.
On the other hand, in Florida, following a fatal accident in 2019, the jury's decision... $243 million compensation penalty The judge upheld the decision. A new generation in Texas. Cybertruck Another accident case involving the same model, where the autonomous system crashed into a concrete barrier, is still being heard in court. Plaintiffs argue that the company is directly responsible for the accidents due to engineering errors and misleading advertising campaigns.
