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.

  • @Maalus
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    611 months ago

    Lmao “tesla” and “human progress”.

    Yeah then go ahead and let the car spy on you. Let the country implement good citizen scores while we are at it.

    Privacy is a human right, and an internal camera is pointless to the “progress” you are talking about. It’s there to catch you out on a technicality to deny a settlement when the “self driving car” cripples you.

    • @money_loo
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      -611 months ago

      You are not entitled to privacy in public spaces while out and about though, and if you purchase a car with a camera in it then you’re explicitly allowing its usage on you while in said car.

      You guys are all, what, like 15 years old or something? Like, holy shit, forget the name of the company for a second and just think reasonably about how any of this stuff works.

      • @Maalus
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        611 months ago

        Yup, I’ve thought long and hard how all of this works Works in a very simple way - company is installing cameras in cars to get rid of any semblence of privacy. Shills defend it as “technological progress”. People like me laugh at them and will never buy a car they shill for.

        • @money_loo
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          -411 months ago

          Sounds like the free market at work! Good for you.

          • @Guest_User
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            211 months ago

            Sounds like you may have had enough internet today

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        no privacy in public spaces

        That’s an American thing and you’re an idiot for accepting this. In Europe we have privacy.