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.

    • @money_loo
      -9•11 months ago

      Hearsay from ex-employees do not equal proof, though.

      • @[email protected]
        6•11 months ago

        You asked how it can be abused. This is one way it can be abused.

        If it’s computer, it can be hacked. Doesn’t have to be the car company itself that does the spying, though considering the track record of American companies, it wouldn’t surprise me. It could be you local police department, your distrustful partner, etc…

        • @money_loo
          -6•11 months ago

          “This is one way it can be abused”

          And what is this exactly? You never provided a valid example of anything…

          • @[email protected]
            1•11 months ago

            Then I would suggest you to re-read the article and spend a minute to think about how that relates to how the technology can be abused. I’m not sure I can make it more obvious, and honestly if feels like you don’t understand it in bad faith.

            • @money_loo
              1•11 months ago

              Again, hearsay is not proof of anything my guy, so you’ve not provided anything that proves your hypothetical abuse.