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.

  • @[email protected]English
    39•1 year 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.

    • @[email protected]
      4•1 year 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.