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]
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    611 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
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      “This is one way it can be abused”

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

      • @[email protected]
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        111 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
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          111 months ago

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