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Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash (electrek.co)
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Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it lost this week.

The automaker was undeniably covering up for Autopilot.

Last week, a jury found Tesla partially liable for a wrongful death involving a crash on Autopilot. We now have access to the trial transcripts, which confirm that Tesla was extremely misleading in its attempt to place all the blame on the driver.

The company went as far as to actively withhold critical evidence that explained Autopilot’s performance around the crash. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers, the “Mothership”, and received an acknowledgement. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.

What ensued were years of battle to get Tesla to acknowledge that this collision snapshot exists and is relevant to the case.

The police repeatedly attempted to obtain the data from the collision snapshot, but Tesla led the authorities and the plaintiffs on a lengthy journey of deception and misdirection that spanned years.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world -4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is a good point. Also, another comment said it’s possible the data snapshot is very large, so it’s not intended to be stored locally.

Either way, if you are sending data about my car to a server, it better be easy for me to get this data if needed.

[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't these keep a video record of every time a squirrel gets too close to the parked car?

Another m.2 under the dash isn't going to kill the electric vehicles battery, this isn't an excuse.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Don’t these keep a video record

those are saved on external drives. That being said, they could also have it set to save something like this to the external storage if it was too large for the internal memory as well.

Videos aren't saved without the external drive.