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I'm not going to dive into specifics of each and everything the article mentions, but it does seem to neglect real causes for employees to need to share videos

I'm not going to dive into specifics of each and everything the article mentions, but it does seem to neglect real causes for employees to need to share videos like this. When designing systems or troubleshooting, you may want engineers working on related systems to look at a video of a failure case. This is very normal. And can be done in a safe way with location data, etc, removed. Sure in this instance the failure case is a child being hurt, but despite not being a happy topic, at the end of the day it is just data that needs to be diagnosed. The headline is just trying to get an emotional reaction here.

myko 3y ago
While that makes sense, reading beyond the headline shows that it went beyond training purposes: "Some of these images reportedly became screenshots or memes shared among groups of employees via Mattermost, Tesla's internal messaging system. Managers are said to have cracked down on the practice, which Reuters claims continued at least to the middle of last year." At least the management team began to crack down on it
- voakbasda 3y ago
  Likely only because they saw the writing on the wall that there would be serious consequences, as the details of the situation were leaking out to the public. Prior to that, I would suspect they were actively complicit with the status quo. It's not like managers have some innate moral superiority to their subordinates. If anything, quite the opposite....
uberman 3y ago
"you may want engineers working on related systems to look at a video of a failure case"... and then share them as intra-company memes apparently.
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pengaru 3y ago
The headline can even be interpreted as pro-Tesla, if the reader is more concerned with child safety WRT speeding cars than the privacy of Tesla owners. You might even be disappointed to find such videos weren't streamed real-time to the authorities. Why can't the AI capable of driving the car identify the event and report it including the evidence?
watwut 3y ago
This was not done in order to diagnose anything. This was done purely for fun. Article explains the context pretty clearly.

myko 3y ago

While that makes sense, reading beyond the headline shows that it went beyond training purposes: "Some of these images reportedly became screenshots or memes shared among groups of employees via Mattermost, Tesla's internal messaging system. Managers are said to have cracked down on the practice, which Reuters claims continued at least to the middle of last year." At least the management team began to crack down on it

voakbasda 3y ago
Likely only because they saw the writing on the wall that there would be serious consequences, as the details of the situation were leaking out to the public. Prior to that, I would suspect they were actively complicit with the status quo. It's not like managers have some innate moral superiority to their subordinates. If anything, quite the opposite....

uberman 3y ago

"you may want engineers working on related systems to look at a video of a failure case"... and then share them as intra-company memes apparently.

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pengaru 3y ago

The headline can even be interpreted as pro-Tesla, if the reader is more concerned with child safety WRT speeding cars than the privacy of Tesla owners. You might even be disappointed to find such videos weren't streamed real-time to the authorities. Why can't the AI capable of driving the car identify the event and report it including the evidence?

watwut 3y ago

This was not done in order to diagnose anything. This was done purely for fun. Article explains the context pretty clearly.