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I know this seems like I’m against Tesla. I’m not. I want Tesla to be truthful about the car’s capabilities and its marketing because, in my opinion, they are not doing so at this time. They have not delivered anything to a retail customer that is fully autonomous. Anyone who bought a car with “Full…
Fully Autonomous Full Self-Driving? Nope. A month ago I wrote a post asking whether Tesla’s strategy was designed to delay. https://teslaarbitration.com/home-page-Tesla-Arbitration/is-teslas-strategy-designed-to-delay/ It turns out that the answer is yes. If you try to order a Tesla with Full Self-Driving today, you can’t buy a car with “Full Self-Driving”, “Full Self-Driving (Unsupervised)” or “Full Self-Driving Capability”.…
A Federal judge in California has certified a class action with two subclasses. What does this mean? First, let’s briefly discuss what a class action is. Under Federal law, a class action can be filed where there is a common claim that can be made by a lot of people that could best be administered…
Fred Lambert, at Electrek.co, did a brilliant job of analyzing Tesla’s conduct in the Key Largo Autopilot wrongful death case. I’ve been involved in cases where you are looking for a needle in a haystack. But usually the needle is in the haystack I’ve been provided. Fred recounts, through a thorough timeline analysis, how Tesla…
by: Marc Dobin During the 2Q Earnings call on July 23, 2025, Tesla’s CFO, Vaibhav Taneja, said “”What we want to do is we want to get unsupervised done on Hardware 4 first. Once it’s done, then we will go back and look at what we need to do with the Hardware 3 cars.” This…
By Marc Dobin Introduction: Tesla’s Autonomy Claims vs. Engineering Reality In the world of autonomous driving, terminology matters. Tesla markets its driver assistance package as “Full Self-Driving” (FSD), which strongly suggests that the vehicle can drive itself. But according to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), which sets the gold standard for defining vehicle automation,…