Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak Slams Elon Musk For Failing To Deliver On Autopilot Promises

Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak slammed Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday for not delivering on his promises of automated driving capabilities on Tesla vehicles.

What Happened: Wozniak said that Musk had received a lot of money from him because he believed in Musk’s promises.

Speaking on the Tuesday morning edition of CNN This Morning, Wozniak expressed his frustration with Tesla’s Autopilot feature, saying, “I believed things he said! That a car would drive itself across the country by the end of 2016. Oh, I had to upgrade to that model. You know, $50,000 and then it wouldn't do anything. I could tell it would never make it across the country.”

He added, “And boy, if you want to study AI gone wrong and taking a lot of claims and trying to kill you every chance it can, get a Tesla!”

Why It Matters: Wozniak is not the only one who believes Tesla autopilot promises are “not even close to reality” or that it is “trying to kill you.” Shareholders of Tesla sued the automaker and Musk in February alleging that both overstated the effectiveness and safety of the company’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving technologies.

Since 2016, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has reportedly opened 40 crash investigations involving Tesla vehicles that may have been driven in Autopilot mode. These crashes also involved 19 deaths.

Only last month, the government agency said that it would open an investigation into a crash involving a 2022 Model Y vehicle and a 17-year-old.

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