The revelation comes from the new Elon Musk biography, where he suggested that cabin cameras be used to prevail in autopilot investigations.

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.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
    47·
    8 months ago

    Yeah, this is going to be a issue for most if not all driver assisted cars I think. GM’s hand’s free system uses eye tracking cameras for their system and I have no doubt they’re probably also going to push for these kinds of reviews in their crashes too, all recalls and scandals considered.

    The laws need to catch up with the tech sooner rather than later here.

      • extant@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        When you buy a car it’s spelled out in the privacy policy that they are absolutely collecting data and using it for X Y purpose and sharing it with their partners. Mozilla did an article on the policies and one of them even flat out said they are collecting data about having sex in the car. Edit: Sorry my point was going to be that when you purchase a car you are agreeing to this and if you disagree you don’t purchase it. So there is no protection because we’ve consented and personal data is too profitable wo American oligarchs won’t let those laws change.

    • what_is_a_name@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 months ago

      I think that is why Ford’s Blue Cruise that uses IR sensors like iPhone’s Face ID You s the better way to go.

      But ultimately al L this tech can be misused. And will be misused.