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Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash (electrek.co)

submitted 5 months ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/BoycottUnitedStates@europe.pub

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33961193

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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[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 3 points 5 months ago

Tesla's reputation is not doing great

[–] Kurious84@lemmings.world 3 points 5 months ago

Tesla is well known for its evil practices. Anyone who stands up gets reprimanded and fired.

[–] agegamon@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Good reminder for anyone that still has a Tesla to a) never trust tesla autopilot and b) get a third party dashcam.

Yes Tesla has a built-in dashcam feature and in the case above it deleted footage from the car's internal storage, not an SD card or SSD installed by the user. But would I trust it in an actual emergency when the car could feasibly delete the local copy of files? Fuuuuuck no.