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Throttle position and other data have been logged for a long time: http://www.caranddriver.com/columns/your-car-as-a-witness-for-the-prosecution http://www.car
by TYPE_FASTER 10y ago
Throttle position and other data have been logged for a long time:
http://www.caranddriver.com/columns/your-car-as-a-witness-for-the-prosecution http://www.caranddriver.com/columns/your-car-as-a-witness-fo...
http://www.edmunds.com/car-technology/car-black-box-recorders-capture-crash-data.html http://www.edmunds.com/car-technology/car-black-box-recorder...
Now it's standardized:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-law-mandates-black-boxes-in-all-cars-by-2015/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-law-mandates-black-boxes-in-...
- w4 10y agoBut that seems to mostly be speed and throttle information stored in a black box in the car that logs in the event of an accident and isn't remotely accessible. That sort of thing is a far cry from "our server logs show you opened the driver side door at 5:53 PM" like Tesla is doing. If other manufacturers are recording that sort of granular data, too, then yikes.
- cynix 10y agoI don't think the car's logs are automatically transmitted to Tesla. They reside on the car, and Tesla can login remotely to view them if they have a valid reason to.
- brokenmachine 10y agoWho decides if it's a valid reason, and who authorizes such access? If it's not the owner... then they aren't really the owner. With the number of cameras/sensors on a Tesla, it's a privacy nightmare... I won't buy one until the answers to these questions are the ones that I want them to be.
- marssaxman 10y agoOh wow. I have been anti-Tesla due to their creepy "we still own your car" auto-update craziness but that just takes it up another level. No, Tesla, I will not buy your cars, not now not ever, because you don't trust me and therefore I do not trust you.