Tesla Accused of Selling Full Self-Driving to Korean Owners Who Can’t Legally Use It

Tesla is accused of selling its Full Self-Driving (FSD) package to owners in South Korea who cannot legally use it. The complaint, reported this week, is that customers paid thousands of dollars for a driver-assistance feature that Korean regulations do not permit them to operate on public roads.

The accusation goes to the heart of how Tesla sells FSD around the world. The package is marketed as a single product, but what it can actually do varies sharply by country, because each market has its own rules on driver assistance, hands-off driving, and autonomous features. A feature that works in the United States may be restricted or entirely unavailable elsewhere — and buyers may not discover that until after they have paid.

Tesla has not publicly detailed how it handles refunds or disclosures for FSD in markets where the feature is restricted. For prospective buyers outside the US, the lesson is concrete: before paying for FSD or any supervised-driving package, check exactly which features are enabled in your country, not just what the global marketing promises.