Tesla has retroactively modified “Full Self-Driving” purchase agreements to add “supervised” language that did not exist when owners originally bought the product. In some cases, the original documents have been made entirely inaccessible.
Electrek has confirmed the issue with multiple owners. The contracts in question were signed between 2016 and early 2024, when Tesla sold the package as “Full Self-Driving Capability” — with no mention of “supervised” and the implicit promise of unsupervised autonomy.
Original contracts altered or inaccessible
One owner, Oliver Abcarius, flagged the issue to Electrek.
Abcarius purchased FSD for his 2018 Model 3 on August 12, 2019. When he recently went to pull up his FSD purchase agreement on his Tesla account to build a refund case, he discovered that Tesla had retroactively updated the document. The original contract — which did not contain “supervised” language — now links to an invalid page.
