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Musk wanted to use Tesla cameras to spy on drivers and win autopilot lawsuits (electrek.co)
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Elon Musk pushed to use Tesla’s internal driver monitoring camera to record video of drivers’ behavior, primarily for Tesla to use this video as evidence to defend itself from investigations in the event of a crash, according to Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the Tesla CEO.

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk is out, resulting in several revelations about Tesla’s past, present, and future. One of these revelations is a potential use for the Tesla internal driver monitoring camera that is included on current Teslas.

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[-] klangcola@reddthat.com 25 points 11 months ago

Teslas have internal driver monitoring cameras? :O

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

According to the article, they have since 2017 but they've been disabled/unused until 2021.

Tesla used to rely entirely on a torque sensor in the steering wheel to determine if you're still paying attention; now they use the camera to monitor you too.

Supposedly this doesn't leave the car unless you've opted in to allow it, but given the Customer footage lawsuit Tesla is currently dealing with, I wouldn't trust that to be true.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I imagine there is a process to get hold of this footage from an individual vehicle following a crash? Especially when a lawsuit is confirmed.

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