Briggs Matsko, the suit, claims he paid $5,000 for the package in 2018, similar to many Tesla users who have paid thousands of dollars for Enhanced Autopilot. That was marketed as a prelude to “Full Self-Driving” technology, a new $15,000 software add-on package that is still in development. Matsko is pursuing class-action status for the complaint, while Tesla is already facing another class-action lawsuit for “phantom braking occurrences,” which have plagued Tesla’s adaptive cruise control features for years.
The complaint targets Tesla’s feature language, such as the moniker “Autopilot,” as well as Elon Musk’s public pronouncements and tweets about the constantly incomplete Full Self-Driving system. It explicitly references Musk’s assertion that an autonomous US cross-country journey would be completed by 2018, as well as his 2019 promises of having 1 million robotaxis on the road, stating, “A year from now, we’ll have over a million vehicles with full self-driving, software… everything.”
