A suburban New York man says he decided to purchase a Tesla after taking its billionaire chief executive at his word that the company’s vehicles are able to drive themselves, but once the car’s much-touted autopilot feature was activated, it promptly got confused and collided with a tree.
Ashutosh Shankar is now suing the electric carmaker in an effort to hold the company “and its representatives, including CEO Elon Musk, accountable for years of making misleading and deceptive statements” regarding Tesla’s supposed autonomous driving abilities, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Westchester County Supreme Court.
