Tesla cofounder calls Autopilot and FSD software 'crap' that could risk the carmaker's future
He said self-driving cars were not a part of Tesla's mission when he cofounded the company in 2003.Elon Musk has made autonomous driving a top priority at Tesla, but one of the carmaker's original founders doesn't approve.
"In my opinion, we need to get out of the habit of thinking about all of this autonomous stuff as being connected to EVs. They're separate," Martin Eberhard, a cofounder of Tesla,Eberhard, who Musk ousted as CEO of Tesla in 2007, said creating software for the"So, keep in mind that all this FSD autonomous, autopilot crap — none of that existed when I was there," he said."We were still busy trying to make the car work and we never thought about that at all.
When Eberhard left Tesla in 2007, the company had yet to release its first car. The carmaker was working to develop the
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